November 2018 favorites

November 2018

The November stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Then We’ll Set It Right’ by Robert Gorham Davis
  2. ‘Tiny Smiling Daddy’ by Mary Gaitskill
  3. ‘How Old, How Young’ by John O’Hara
  4. ‘The Fight’ by Stephen Crane
  5. ‘The Rain Horse’ by Ted Hughes
  6. ‘Key To The City’ by Diane Oliver
  7. ‘Crusader Rabbit’ by Jess Mowry
  8. ‘His New Mittens’ by Stephen Crane
  9. ‘Mama’s Missionary Money’ by Chester Himes
  10. ‘Four Men In A Cave’ by Stephen Crane
  11. ‘The Snake’ by Stephen Crane
  12. ‘Celebrations Of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings’ by Ana Menéndez
  13. ‘Two Blue Birds’ by D.H. Lawrence
  14. ‘An Experiment In Misery’ by Stephen Crane
  15. ‘Twilight’ by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

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May 2015 favorites

May2015

May 2015

The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Medal From Jerusalem’ by Irwin Shaw
  2. ‘A Silver Dish’ by Saul Bellow
  3. ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway
  4. ‘One Off The Short List’ by Doris Lessing
  5. ‘Neighbors’ by Diane Oliver
  6. ‘Drenched In Light’ by Zora Neale Hurston
  7. ‘The Snows Of Kilimanjaro’ by Ernest Hemingway
  8. ‘Eli, The Fanatic’ by Philip Roth
  9. ‘The Gift Of The Prodigal’ by Peter Taylor
  10. ‘Che Ti Dice La Patria?’ by Ernest Hemingway
  11. ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ by Ernest Hemingway
  12. ‘The New Order’ by Nancy Hale
  13. ‘Three Million Yen’ by Yukio Mishima
  14. ‘The Supper’ by Tadeusz Borowski
  15. ‘The Interior Castle’ by Jean Stafford
  16. ‘How I Contemplated The World From The Detroit House Of Correction And Began My Life Over Again’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  17. ‘A Simple Enquiry’ by Ernest Hemingway
  18. ‘Janus’ by Ann Beattie
  19. ‘Family Portrait’ by Sherman Alexie
  20. ‘Champion’ by Ring Lardner
  21. ‘The End Of The World’ by Dino Buzzati