OK, I'll lobby hard for Annie Proulx. Not based on content -- both look excellent, and like Tom, I love a good mystery. But the price of the Penzler book is just way, way more than I can justify right now. And I'm also unlikely to be able to read 600+ pages. (Though with a short story book, we could easily agree to only discuss some subset of the total # of stories. And if we do select the Penzler book, I'd strongly suggest that.)
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