May 2023
The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘A Strange And Sometimes Sadness’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
- ‘Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby’ by Donald Barthelme
- ‘My Father’s Friends’ by William Maxwell
- ‘The Young Painters’ by Nicole Krauss
- ‘The First Day’ by Edward P. Jones
- ‘The Things They Carried’ by Tim O’Brien
- ‘Panther Eyes’ by Luisa Valenzuela
- ‘The Baby Party’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘The War Of The Alligators’ by Horacio Quiroga
- ‘New York Girl’ by John Updike
- ‘Baster’ by Jeffrey Eugenides
- ‘Circus At Dawn’ by Thomas Wolfe
- ‘Future Cat’ by Xuan Juliana Wang
- ‘A Nursery Tale’ by Vladimir Nabokov
- ‘The Sorrows Of Gin’ by John Cheever
- ‘Tomorrow’ by Lu Xun
- ‘Apple Cake’ by Allegra Goodman
- ‘When We Were Happy We Had Other Names’ by Yiyun Li
- ‘Everything Is Far From Here’ by Cristina Henríquez
- ‘The Flood’ by Emile Zola
- ‘Now More Than Ever’ by Zadie Smith
- ‘Talpa’ by Juan Rulfo
- ‘Gideon’ by ZZ Packer
- ‘Alms’ by Stuart Dybek
- ‘They Tell Me… Now I Know’ by Shay Youngblood
- ‘In The West Country’ by Leslie Norris
- ‘The Starlet Apartments’ by Jonathan Lethem
- ‘The Voter’ by Chinua Achebe
- ‘The $30,000 Bequest’ by Mark Twain
- ‘The Huntress’ by Sofia Samatar
- ‘Two Ruminations On A Homeless Brother’ by David Means
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