Author: bcw56

May 2023

The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘A Strange And Sometimes Sadness’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. ‘Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby’ by Donald Barthelme
3. ‘My Father’s Friends’ by William Maxwell
4. ‘The Young Painters’ by Nicole Krauss
5. ‘The First Day’ by Edward P. Jones
6. ‘The Things They Carried’ by Tim O’Brien
7. ‘Panther Eyes’ by Luisa Valenzuela
8. ‘The Baby Party’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. ‘The War Of The Alligators’ by Horacio Quiroga
10. ‘New York Girl’ by John Updike
11. ‘Baster’ by Jeffrey Eugenides
12. ‘Circus At Dawn’ by Thomas Wolfe
13. ‘Future Cat’ by Xuan Juliana Wang
14. ‘A Nursery Tale’ by Vladimir Nabokov
15. ‘The Sorrows Of Gin’ by John Cheever
16. ‘Tomorrow’ by Lu Xun
17. ‘Apple Cake’ by Allegra Goodman
18. ‘When We Were Happy We Had Other Names’ by Yiyun Li
19. ‘Everything Is Far From Here’ by Cristina Henríquez
20. ‘The Flood’ by Emile Zola
21. ‘Now More Than Ever’ by Zadie Smith
22. ‘Talpa’ by Juan Rulfo
23. ‘Gideon’ by ZZ Packer
24. ‘Alms’ by Stuart Dybek
25. ‘They Tell Me… Now I Know’ by Shay Youngblood
26. ‘In The West Country’ by Leslie Norris
27. ‘The Starlet Apartments’ by Jonathan Lethem
28. ‘The Voter’ by Chinua Achebe
29. ‘The $30,000 Bequest’ by Mark Twain
30. ‘The Huntress’ by Sofia Samatar
31. ‘Two Ruminations On A Homeless Brother’ by David Means

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