May 2019 favorites

May 2019

The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘How Can I Help?’ by Rivka Galchen
  2. ‘Tom Wolfe’s My Name’ by Jessamyn West
  3. ‘A Village After Dark’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
  4. ‘The Faithful’ by James Alan McPherson
  5. ‘White On Black’ by Tess Slesinger
  6. ‘The Battle Of The Suits’ by Jessamyn West
  7. ‘The Silver Bullet’ by James Alan McPherson
  8. ‘Homecoming’ by Jessamyn West
  9. ‘Vicious Circle’ by Langston Hughes
  10. ‘By The Way Of Morning Fire’ by Michael Weaver
  11. ‘A Sense Of Story’ by James Alan McPherson
  12. ‘The Story Of A Dead Man’ by James Alan McPherson
  13. ‘Can-Can’ by Arturo Vivante
  14. ‘The Story Of A Scar’ by James Alan McPherson
  15. ‘The Pink Pale Roast’ by Grace Paley
  16. ‘Memorial Day’ by Peter Cameron
  17. ‘Levitation’ by Cynthia Ozick
  18. ‘Backwacking, A Plea To The Senator’ by Ralph Ellison

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April 2015 favorites

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April 2015

The April stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Bullet In The Brain’ by Tobias Wolff
  2. ‘The Shawl’ by Cynthia Ozick
  3. ‘The Bath’ by Raymond Carver
  4. ‘The Five-Forty-Eight’ by John Cheever
  5. ‘The Living’ by Mary Lavin
  6. ‘Why Don’t You Dance?’ by Raymond Carver
  7. ‘Feathers’ by Raymond Carver
  8. ‘Death Of A Right Fielder’ by Stuart Dybek
  9. ‘Death Of A Traveling Salesman’ by Eudora Welty
  10. ‘Everything Stuck To Him’ by Raymond Carver
  11. ‘The Vertical Ladder’ by William Sansom
  12. ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ by Richard Connell
  13. ‘A Small, Good Thing’ by Raymond Carver
  14. ‘The Patented Gate And The Mean Hamburger’ by Robert Penn Warren
  15. ‘One Throw’ by W.C. Heinz
  16. ‘One Gram Short’ by Etgar Keret
  17. ‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme
  18. ‘Alibi Ike’ by Ring Lardner
  19. ‘Smoke’ by Michael Chabon
  20. ‘The Jewbird’ by Bernard Malamud
  21. ‘The Pitcher And The Plutocrat’ by P.G. Wodehouse
  22. ‘The Hitchhiking Game’ by Milan Kundera
  23. ‘Tony’s Wife’ by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
  24. ‘The Man Who Saw Through Heaven’ by Wilbur Daniel Steele