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Little Black Book of Stories by A. S. Byatt
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The short stores of Saki {H.H.Munro} are well worth reading.You can download his works free from Project Gutenberg.
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10-01-2011, 10:14 AM | #78 |
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A few I haven't seen mentioned:
'The Things they Carried' - Tim O'Brien 'Fleur' - Louise Erdrich 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' - Papa Hemingway (an oldie-but-goodie) 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' - Karen Russell (the story Swamplandia! is based on) 'The Laugh' - Tea Obreht |
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FYI: Best American Short Stories 2011 just released today:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...w_myk_ro_title |
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You can read Frank O'Connor's short story My Oedipus Complex online here:
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Off the top of my head:
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang "Spar" by Kij Johnson "The Cambist and Lord Iron" by Daniel Abraham "At Reparata" by Jeffrey Ford "Younger Women" by Karen Joy Fowler "The Summer People" by Kelly Link |
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"The Celestial Omnibus" by E M Forster
"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier * "The Blue Lenses" by Daphne du Maurier * The original story from which Hitchcock made his film - chilling. |
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Jonathan Carroll's short story collection, The Woman Who Married a Cloud, is Amazon's Book of the Day. You can get it for $1.99.
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lots of good recommendations
guess I have nothing to add as many of these are my favorites too... bookmarking this thread |
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Powell's Short List.
Best Short Story Collections of the 21st Century (So Far). http://www.powells.com/the-short-list/ |
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Norman Mailer's The Greatest Thing In The World
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I'll add a few to the list:
Friend of my Youth by Alice Munroe Of course there are many Munroe stories to choose from but for some reason this one is the richest for me. To Everything There is a Season by Alistair MacLeod I've read this story at least 20 times - it haunts me! Here is a link to a great reading of it by Les Carlson for CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/featur...stair-macleod/ The Swimmer by John Cheever The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry This one because of how it made me laugh when I first read it at the age of 8. |
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This thread is missing a few masters of the form, especially Borges. My favourite Borges stories are "Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote," "Three versions of Judas", "The Library of Babel."
Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" says quite a bit about the west's interactions with the non-west. The horror, the horror. Lu Xun's satirical short stories are definitely worth a read. Did Hemingway ever write anything better than "Big Two-Hearted River"? Kawabata Yasunari wrote tiny little stories throughout his career. My favourite of his "palm-of-the-hand" tales is "Mr. Thank You." It's just a couple pages, but was made into a charming feature film. My favourite Japanese short stories are Sakaguchi Ango's "the Idiot" & "In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom.” These are elliptical, yet very moving. |
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I like the short stories by O.Henry, his "Gift of the Magi" is a classic. And then there is Jack London who wrote some good ones.
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Lucia Perillo's Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain is turning out to be quite the collection. Doctor Vick's and Saint Jude in Persia are standing out so far.
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