Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Blame It on the Editor

One must hope that there are better writers in the over seventy-five Masters programs listed as participants at the back of this volume. The stories selected are almost universally dull with characters that while real, lack nuance. The prose in most of the stories is functional, but never lyrical, and there is not one original idea in the lot. Even the titles, excepting "A Few Fish and Anonymous Spaniards," are completely lacking in imagination. If this is the best our universities have to offer, then the outlook is truly dismal. The blame thus belongs to Ms. Hoffman, a writer of some imagination and skill, but apparently a terrible reader based on this volume and her effort as editor of The Best American Short Stories 1994, the weakest of the series in decades. Hoffman apparently finds interest in stories that are closer to sketches and offer few delights of language or plot. It is as if Ms. Hoffman endeavored to find future stars that were sure to glimmer none too brightly