Five top contemporary short story collections

Lorin Stein is the editor of The Paris Review and co-editor of Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story.

He named five top contemporary short story collections for The Daily Beast.

One title on the list:
PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies
by Ken Kalfus

Imagine Breaking Bad but with weapons-grade plutonium instead of meth. That’s the basic premise of the title story