The Eclipse by Elizabeth Spencer, 1958 Continue reading
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‘Face Time’ by Lorrie Moore
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‘Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People’ by Lorrie Moore
Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People by Lorrie Moore, 1993 Continue reading
‘The Reverse Bug’ by Lore Segal
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‘A Wet Day’ by Mary Lavin
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‘Chance The Cat’ by David Means
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‘B.F. And Me’ by Lucia Berlin
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‘Texas’ by David Gates
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March 2024 favorites
March 2024
The March stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.
- ‘Torch Song’ by John Cheever
- ‘You Never Get It Back’ by Cara Blue Adams
- ‘Three Women Of Chuck’s Donuts’ by Anthony Veasna So
- ‘The Worm In Philly’ by Sam Lipsyte
- ‘Brigid’ by Mary Lavin
- ‘Chance’ by Alice Munro
- ‘Departure’ by Andrew Porter
- ‘The Long Black Line’ by John L’Heureux
- ‘The Run Of Yourself’ by Richard Ford
- ‘The Slip-Up’ by John McGahern
- ‘The Maths Tutor’ by Tessa Hadley
- ‘Hearts Of Oak And Bellies Of Brass’ by John McGahern
- ‘Take Half, Leave Half’ by Thomas McGuane
- ‘What Feels Like The World’ by Richard Bausch
- ‘Seeing Ershadi’ by Nicole Krauss
- ‘The Triumph Of Night’ by Edith Wharton
- ‘Ocracoke Island’ by Alice Adams
- ‘Those As Are Brothers’ by Nancy Hale
- ‘The Man Who Saw The Flood’ by Richard Wright
- ‘Envoy’ by Caleb Crain
- ‘Rumm Road’ by Alice Elliott Dark
- ‘The Glass House’ by Chris Adrian
- ‘A Story Without A Title’ by Anton Chekhov
- ‘Beach Town’ by Amy Hempel
- ‘The Help’ by Mary Robison
- ‘Korean Jesus’ by Pete Hsu
- ‘So Late In The Day’ by Claire Keegan
- ‘The Kid Nobody Could Handle’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- ‘Xífù’ by K-Ming Chang
- ‘Miss Mary Pask’ by Edith Wharton
- ‘You Tell Me’ by Clare Sestanovich
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‘Envoy’ by Caleb Crain
Envoy by Caleb Crain, 2017 Continue reading



