September 2020 favorites

September 2020

The September stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Heaven’ by Mary Gaitskill
2. ‘The First Seven Years’ by Bernard Malamud
3. ‘Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party’ by Bernard Malamud
4. ‘The Profile’ by Willa Cather
5. ‘Simmering’ by Margaret Atwood
6. ‘The Mourners’ by Bernard Malamud
7. ‘On The Divide’ by Willa Cather
8. ‘The Garden Lodge’ by Willa Cather
9. ‘My Son The Murderer’ by Bernard Malamud
10. ‘Angel Levine’ by Bernard Malamud
11. ‘Dirty Deceivers’ by Chester Himes
12. ‘The Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set’ by James McBride
13. ‘My Flamboyant Grandson’ by George Saunders
14. ‘Cooking Lesson’ by Rosario Castellanos
15. ‘Dragged Fighting From His Tomb’ by Barry Hannah
16. ‘The Egg Race’ by John Updike
17. ‘The Namesake’ by Willa Cather
18. ‘Cortés And Montezuma’ by Donald Barthelme
19. ‘The Children’ by Andrea Lee
20. ‘Cranberry Relish’ by Katherine Heiny
21. ‘The Richer, The Poorer’ by Dorothy West
22. ‘The Doctor And The Rabbi’ by Aimee Bender

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