Author: bcw56

January 2017

The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Promise’ by John Steinbeck
2. ‘A Loaf Of Bread’ by James Alan McPherson
3. ‘The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant
4. ‘The Emerald Light In The Air’ by Donald Antrim
5. ‘The Adventure Of The Empty House’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. ‘Coach’ by Mary Robison
7. ‘Smother’ by Joyce Carol Oates
8. ‘Most Die Young’ by Camille Bordas
9. ‘Permission To Enter’ by Zadie Smith
10. ‘The Peasant Marey’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. ‘An Honest Thief’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. ‘Game Plan’ by Don DeLillo
13. ‘Two Men Arrive In A Village’ by Zadie Smith
14. ‘A Novel In Nine Letters’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. ‘The Crocodile’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
16. ‘One Officer, One Man’ by Ambrose Bierce
17. ‘Escape From New York’ by Zadie Smith
18. ‘Rest Stop’ by Stephen King
19. ‘Moonlit Landscape With Bridge’ by Zadie Smith
20. ‘Bobok’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
21. ‘Meet The President!’ by Zadie Smith

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