Anthology

The Best Australian Stories 2011 edited by Cate Kennedy

Item: The Best Australian Stories 2011
Author: Ruth Starke

by Ruth Starke •

December 2011–January 2012, no. 337

Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 256 pp, 9781863955485

Anthology

The Best Australian Stories 2011 edited by Cate Kennedy

by Ruth Starke •

December 2011–January 2012, no. 337

The ABC Shop is currently selling online The Best Australian Stories 2010 for $14.99. ‘Ideal for summer reading’ its advertising says, and it surely doesn’t matter which summer. At that price you might get yourself a copy and sling it in your beach bag, unless you suspect it might dampen your holiday mood. More than a few reviewers found the overall tone of the collection bleak and negative: ‘one of the more depressing reads of the year’, wrote Chris Flynn in these pages (February 2011). If that doesn’t sound like ideal beach reading, shell out the full RRP and buy The Best Australian Stories 2011.

Ruth Starke

Dr Ruth Starke (1946-2022) was a writer, critic and creative writing teacher. She held Academic Status at Flinders University where she was the Editor, Creative Writing, for Transnational Literature. She was a regular and longtime book reviewer for Australian Book Review, Viewpoint, and Radio Adelaide, and a past Chair of the SA Writers Centre. She published more than twenty-five books for young readers.