Author: bcw56

September 2023

The September stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Pretty Daughters’ by John O’Hara
2. ‘Concord 34’ by Sally Rooney
3. ‘Mojave Rats’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
4. ‘Ordinary Sins’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
5. ‘Miss Anna’s Asleep’ by Jesse Stuart
6. ‘Bestiary’ by Julio Cortázar
7. ‘The Strength Of God’ by Sherwood Anderson
8. ‘On The Agenda’ by Lore Segal
9. ‘This Farm For Sale’ by Jesse Stuart
10. ‘Wrens And Starling’ by J.F. Powers
11. ‘The Teacher’ by Sherwood Anderson
12. ‘The Boundary’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
13. ‘Adventure’ by Sherwood Anderson
14. ‘My Girls’ by John O’Hara
15. ‘Turn Back The Bed’ by Wendell Berry
16. ‘Roy’ by Timothy Willis Sanders
17. ‘The Boy Upstairs’ by Joshua Ferris
18. ‘The Thinker’ by Sherwood Anderson
19. ‘Battle With The Bees’ by Jesse Stuart
20. ‘As Ye Sows, So Shall Ye Reap’ by Jesse Stuart
21. ‘A Big Night’ by Leslie Norris
22. ‘Old Hope’ by Clare Sestanovich
23. ‘You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There’ by Elizabeth Taylor
24. ‘The Discovery Of Kentucky’ by Wendell Berry
25. ‘Trash’ by Souvankham Thammavongsa
26. ‘The Woman The Book Read’ by Sarah Hall
27. ‘Respectability’ by Sherwood Anderson
28. ‘Tandy’ by Sherwood Anderson
29. ‘A Ribbon For Baldy’ by Jesse Stuart
30. ‘Loneliness’ by Sherwood Anderson

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