Pretty upset that the travel map was ripped out of the back. The product was advertised as new--but it clearly wasn't.

My item came shipped via UPS, box was undamaged. I open up to start assembling and found part of the foot pad was chipped and barely usable. I contact technical support and they told me to contact the Gazelle manufacturer. Well, the company went out of business 2 years ago and no company makes parts for it now. Thanks Amazon for selling something that is no loner serviceable or offers tech support.

There are some standout pieces in this collection, but overall there's too much casual literary misogyny and conventional storytelling for my tastes. Literary giants have been writing about adultery, lust, and statutory rape for a very long time, and at some point it gets old (for this reader, at least). I wish the Best American series would branch out a little more and get a greater variety of types of stories -- maybe even some work that has genre elements.