January 2022 favorites

January 2022

The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Whole World Knows’ by Eudora Welty
  2. ‘Clytie’ by Eudora Welty
  3. ‘The Family Meadow’ by John Updike
  4. ‘Travis, B.’ by Maile Meloy
  5. ‘Ava Wrestles The Alligator’ by Karen Russell
  6. ‘Displaced’ by Richard Ford
  7. ‘Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976’ by Maile Meloy
  8. ‘Uncle High Lonesome’ by Barry Hannah
  9. ‘Alaska’ by Alice Adams
  10. ‘Riddle’ by Thomas McGuane
  11. ‘Flower Hunters’ by Lauren Groff
  12. ‘Treasure State’ by Smith Henderson
  13. ‘Magnolia Flower’ by Zora Neale Hurston
  14. ‘Happy’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  15. ‘Without Inspection’ by Edwidge Danticat
  16. ‘FAQs’ by Allegra Goodman
  17. ‘Boys’ by Rick Moody
  18. ‘Through The Safety Net’ by Charles Baxter

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August 2018 favorites

August 2018

The August stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Comforts Of Home’ by Flannery O’Connor
  2. ‘Petrified Man’ by Eudora Welty
  3. ‘Where Is The Voice Coming From?’ by Eudora Welty
  4. ‘Hair’ by William Faulkner
  5. ‘Dogs Go Wolf’ by Lauren Groff
  6. ‘A Pair Of Silk Stockings’ by Kate Chopin
  7. ‘Lily Daw And The Three Ladies’ by Eudora Welty
  8. ‘Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed’ by Barry Hannah
  9. ‘My Side Of The Matter’ by Truman Capote
  10. ‘The Homecoming’ by Frank Yerby
  11. ‘A Memory’ by Eudora Welty
  12. ‘The Confidence Man’ by George Garrett
  13. ‘A Curtain Of Green’ by Eudora Welty
  14. ‘Wunderkind’ by Carson McCullers
  15. ‘The Man With Two Left Feet’ by P.G. Wodehouse
  16. ‘Porte-Cochere’ by Peter Taylor
  17. ‘A Mother’s Tale’ by James Agee

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