i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

Internets, recommend some short story writers and/or anthologies to me? I'm trying to work through a backlog of non-fiction right now, and sometimes it's nice to pick up something compact to clear my brain-palate. More interested in collections/books with a theme or by a single author than I am in, say, Best of American Short Stories [insert-year-here]. I have read and enjoy short story collections by Lee Smith, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Joe Hill, to name a few.


In exchange, please have the song I was obsessed with over the weekend:

[The Baseball Project -- "Harvey Haddix"] 6MB, .mp3. A song about Pirates' pitcher Harvey Haddix and his almost-perfect 13 inning game. Delightful indie rock from an album all about baseball.

I woke up crank-crank-cranky to the max. NEEDS MORE COFFEE.