March 2024 favorites

March 2024

The March stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

1. ‘Torch Song’ by John Cheever
2. ‘You Never Get It Back’ by Cara Blue Adams
3. ‘Three Women Of Chuck’s Donuts’ by Anthony Veasna So
4. ‘The Worm In Philly’ by Sam Lipsyte
5. ‘Brigid’ by Mary Lavin
6. ‘Chance’ by Alice Munro
7. ‘Departure’ by Andrew Porter
8. ‘The Long Black Line’ by John L’Heureux
9. ‘The Run Of Yoursef’ by Richard Ford
10. ‘The Slip-Up’ by John McGahern
11. ‘The Maths Tutor’ by Tessa Hadley
12. ‘Hearts Of Oak And Bellies Of Brass’ by John McGahern
13. ‘Take Half, Leave Half’ by Thomas McGuane
14. ‘What Feels Like The World’ by Richard Bausch
15. ‘Seeing Ershadi’ by Nicole Krauss
16. ‘The Triumph Of Night’ by Edith Wharton
17. ‘Ocracoke Island’ by Alice Adams
18. ‘Those As Are Brothers’ by Nancy Hale
19. ‘The Man Who Saw The Flood’ by Richard Wright
20. ‘Envoy’ by Caleb Crain
21. ‘Rumm Road’ by Alice Elliott Dark
22. ‘The Glass House’ by Chris Adrian
23. ‘A Story Without A Title’ by Anton Chekhov
24. ‘Beach Town’ by Amy Hempel
25. ‘The Help’ by Mary Robison
26. ‘Korean Jesus’ by Pete Hsu
27. ‘So Late In The Day’ by Claire Keegan
28. ‘The Kid Nobody Could Handle’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
29. ‘Xífù’ by K-Ming Chang
30. ‘Miss Mary Pask’ by Edith Wharton
31. ‘You Tell Me’ by Clare Sestanovich

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