An Experiment with Wonder

Claire Messud

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Gryphon: New and Selected Stories
by Charles Baxter
Pantheon, 400 pp., $27.95

While Charles Baxter is probably best known for his best-selling novel The Feast of Love (2000), made into a popular film starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear, the passion he inspires in readers—and in particular in readers who are writers—is focused chiefly upon his short stories.

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