April 2022 favorites

April 2022

The April stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Roses, Rhododendron’ by Alice Adams
  2. ‘Warm River’ by Erskine Caldwell
  3. ‘What Have You Done?’ by Ben Marcus
  4. ‘A Story In Almost Classical Mode’ by Harold Brodkey
  5. ‘Back Then’ by Mary Grimm
  6. ‘Waugh’ by Bryan Washington
  7. ‘Car Crash While Hitchhiking’ by Denis Johnson
  8. ‘Thrift Store Coats’ by Brooks Rexroat
  9. ‘The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky’ by Stephen Crane
  10. ‘Maggie Of The Green Bottles’ by Toni Cade Bambara
  11. ‘The Landlord’ by Wells Tower
  12. ‘Heathen’ by Mike Wilson
  13. ‘Donna’ by Michaella Thornton
  14. ‘The Princess And The Puma’ by O. Henry
  15. ‘The Day The Dam Broke’ by James Thurber
  16. ‘The Texas Principessa’ by William Goyen

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September 2018 favorites

September 2018

The September stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Red From Green’ by Maile Meloy
  2. ‘Thirteen And A Half’ by Maile Meloy
  3. ‘Dido’s Lament’ by Tessa Hadley
  4. ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank’ by Nathan Englander
  5. ‘Lobster Night’ by Russell Banks
  6. ‘Tome’ by Maile Meloy
  7. ‘Aqua Boulevard’ by Maile Meloy
  8. ‘Miracle Polish’ by Steven Millhauser
  9. ‘Red’ by Maile Meloy
  10. ‘Grammar Questions’ by Lydia Davis
  11. ‘The Knowers’ by Helen Phillips
  12. ‘Spirituality; With Or Without A Prayer’ by Elmore Leonard
  13. ‘You Must Be This Happy To Enter’ by Elizabeth Crane
  14. ‘Diem Perdidi’ by Julie Otsuka
  15. ‘Watching Mysteries With My Mother’ by Ben Marcus

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January 2018 favorites

January 2018

The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Displaced Person’ by Flannery O’Connor
  2. ‘I Can Say Many Nice Things’ by Ben Marcus
  3. ‘A Temple Of The Holy Ghost’ by Flannery O’Connor
  4. ‘The Barber’ by Flannery O’Connor
  5. ‘Figures In The Distance’ by Jamaica Kincaid
  6. ‘Rollingwood’ by Ben Marcus
  7. ‘Why Do The Heathens Rage?’ by Flannery O’Connor
  8. ‘Keela, The Outcast Indian Maiden’ by Eudora Welty
  9. ‘Wild Plums’ by Grace Stone Coates
  10. ‘The Looking Glass’ by Anton Chekhov
  11. ‘Truant’ by Claude McKay
  12. ‘Enoch And The Gorilla’ by Flannery O’Connor
  13. ‘The Dark Arts’ by Ben Marcus
  14. ‘Mary Elizabeth’ by Jessie Faucet
  15. ‘The South’ by Jorge Luis Borges
  16. ‘Blueprints For St. Louis’ by Ben Marcus
  17. ‘Storytellers, Liars, And Bores’ by Leonard Michaels
  18. ‘First Love’ by Ben Marcus

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