January 2023 favorites

January 2023

The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Other Side Of The Street’ by John Updike
2. ‘Brides’ by Aryn Kyle
3. ‘The Johnson Girls’ by Toni Cade Bambara
4. ‘Sisters’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
5. ‘The Partridge Festival’ by Flannery O’Connor
6. ‘Sabrina And Corina’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
7. ‘The Lifeguard’ by Mary Morris
8. ‘Almos’ A Man’ by Richard Wright
9. ‘The Thief’ by Guy de Maupassant
10. ‘Virginia Is Not Your Home’ by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
11. ‘Found Objects’ by Jennifer Egan
12. ‘All Her Names’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
13. ‘Elliott Spencer’ by George Saunders
14. ‘Sisters’ by Mary Robison
15. ‘Buying A House Ahead Of The Apocalypse’ by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
16. ‘Company Of Strangers’ by Aryn Kyle
17. ‘Remedies’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
18. ‘Yours’ by Mary Robison
19. ‘Under The Wave’ by Lauren Groff
20. ‘Ghost Sickness’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
21. ‘Ancient Rome’ by Kyle McCarthy
22. ‘The Shorn Lamb’ by Jean Stafford
23. ‘Flashlight’ by Susan Choi
24. ‘The Match’ by Colson Whitehead
25. ‘An Evening Out’ by Garth Greenwell
26. ‘Looking For A Thief’ by Danielle Lazarin
27. ‘August Evening’ by Joyce Carol Oates
28. ‘The Frog Prince’ by Robert Coover
29. ‘Evening On The Côte D’Azur – 1952’ by Richard Yates
30. ‘The Black Lights’ by Thom Jones
31. ‘The Media’ by Ben Lerner

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