Author: bcw56

July 2023

The July stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Interpreter Of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
2. ‘Three People’ by William Trevor
3. ‘Mrs. Sen’s’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. ‘In The Basement’ by Isaac Babel
5. ‘The Dancing-Master’s Music’ by William Trevor
6. ‘This Blessed House’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
7. ‘A Real Durwan’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
8. ‘Di Grasso’ by Isaac Babel
9. ‘Miss Brill’ by Katherine Mansfield
10. ‘The Diver’ by V.S. Pritchett
11. ‘The Secret Of Cartwheels’ by Patricia Henley
12. ‘Sexy’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
13. ‘The Parrot’ by Elizabeth Bowen
14. ‘First Love’ by Isaac Babel
15. ‘Sacred Statues’ by William Trevor
16. ‘The Third And Final Continent’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
17. ‘The Widow’ by Isaac Babel
18. ‘Allegiance’ by Aryn Kyle
19. ‘How Things Were Done In Odessa’ by Isaac Babel
20. ‘The Meeting’ by Alix Ohlin
21. ‘Graillis’s Legacy’ by William Trevor
22. ‘After Rain’ by William Trevor
23. ‘Odd Jobs’ by Jonathan Escoffery
24. ‘The Treatment Of Bibi Haldar’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
25. ‘Invisible Bird’ by Claire-Louise Bennett
26. ‘I Am An American’ by James Alan McPherson
27. ‘Pestilence’ by Jonathan Escoffery
28. ‘Ten Indians’ by Ernest Hemingway
29. ‘The Cure’ by Melissa Febos
30. ‘The Break Up Of Ice’ by Lucie Elven
31. ‘In Bed One Night’ by Robert Coover

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