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Rumpus Book Club“Life,” “Man,” “Love,” and “Winter”
A recent post at The Millions, Best American Short Stories: By the Numbers, inspired a writer at B.O.M.M. to create a word cloud (using Wordle) mapping the most common words in the titles of stories that have appeared in the anthology from 1978 to 2008.
The word cloud does not include “articles and such,” and shows a few of the big winners to be “life,” “man,” “love,” and “winter.” Not so much for the word “woman,” which, the author of the post points out, has appeared in the title of a Best American Short Story (since 1978) as many times as the word “Elvis”: twice.
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