Phone Calls by Roberto Bolaño, 1997 Continue reading
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‘Tom-Rock Through The Eels’ by Amy Hempel
Tom-Rock Through The Eels by Amy Hempel, 1990 Continue reading
‘At The Animal Shelter’ by Amy Hempel
At The Animal Shelter by Amy Hempel, 1990 Continue reading
‘And Lead Us Not Into Penn Station’ by Amy Hempel
And Lead Us Not Into Penn Station by Amy Hempel, 1990 Continue reading
‘Murder’ by Amy Hempel
Murder by Amy Hempel, 1990 Continue reading
‘The Harvest’ by Amy Hempel
The Harvest by Amy Hempel, 1990 Continue reading
‘Daylight Come’ by Amy Hempel
Daylight Come by Amy Hempel, 1990 Continue reading
‘Rapture Of The Deep’ by Amy Hempel
Rapture Of The Deep by Amy Hempel, 1987 Continue reading
‘The Wind-Up Bird And Tuesday’s Women’ by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird And Tuesday’s Women by Haruki Murakami, 1986 Continue reading
August 2017 favorites
The August stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘The Man Of The House’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘Chicxulub’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- ‘The Second Bakery Attack’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘The Man On The Stairs’ by Miranda July
- ‘First Confession’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘Sault Ste. Marie’ by David Means
- ‘Them Old Cowboy Songs’ by Annie Proulx
- ‘The Year Of Spaghetti’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘My Oedipus Complex’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘August 25, 1983’ by Jorge Luis Borges
- ‘A Piece Of News’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Legal Aid’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘Dabchick’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘Other Factors’ by Mary Gaitskill
- ‘Prodigal’ by Laura D. Nichols
- ‘The Masculine Principle’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘The Prophetic Pictures’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘The Stolen Body’ by H.G. Wells
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