Head And Shoulders by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920 Continue reading
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May 2023 favorites
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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‘The Baby Party’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Baby Party by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 Continue reading
September 2022 favorites
The September stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Willing’ by Lorrie Moore
- ‘The Man Who Knew Belle Starr’ by Richard Bausch
- ‘A Father-To-Be’ by Saul Bellow
- ‘A Vermont Tale’ by Mark Helprin
- ‘The Five Wounds’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
- ‘Nemecia’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
- ‘Where The Mountains Are’ by Bill Barich
- ‘Seeing Clear’ by Cara Blue Adams
- ‘Sugar Babies’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
- ‘The Beautiful Mountains’ by John Cheever
- ‘Afternoon In Linen’ by Shirley Jackson
- ‘Sauerkraut Soup’ by Stuart Dybek
- ‘Our Lady Of Peace’ by ZZ Packer
- ‘Sunday Lunch’ by Nancy Hale
- ‘Benediction’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘With Reference To An Incident At A Bridge’ by William Maxwell
- ‘Along The Frontage Road’ by Michael Chabon
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‘Benediction’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Benediction by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920 Continue reading
February 2022 favorites
The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Are You All Right?’ by Wendell Berry
- ‘Three-Ten To Yuma’ by Elmore Leonard
- ‘Talkin Bout Sonny’ by Toni Cade Bambara
- ‘Detroit Skyline 1949’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
- ‘Dalyrimple Goes Wrong’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘The Terrapin’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘Something Nice’ by Mary Gaitskill
- ‘A Visit’ by Steven Millhauser
- ‘Sun City’ by Caitlin Horrocks
- ‘The Tin Butterfly’ by Mary McCarthy
- ‘Do With Me What You Will’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘A Figure Of Speech’ by Tess Gallagher
- ‘Death Of A Favorite’ by J.F. Powers
- ‘Haircut’ by Ring Lardner
- ‘Ghost Patrol’ by Sinclair Lewis
- ‘I Walk Between The Raindrops’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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‘Dalyrimple Goes Wrong’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dalyrimple Goes Wrong by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920 Continue reading
December 2018 favorites
The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Unlighted Lamps’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘The Doll’ by Edna O’Brien
- ‘Flowers For Algernon’ by Daniel Keyes
- ‘Homecoming’ by William Maxwell
- ‘Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie’ by Beryl Bainbridge
- ‘The Christmas Miracle’ by Rebecca Curtis
- ‘Christmas Longings’ by Elizabeth Spencer
- ‘The Enchanted Bluff’ by Willa Cather
- ‘New York Mining Disaster’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘Christmas Song’ by Langston Hughes
- ‘Present For Joyce’ by Langston Hughes
- ‘Lost In The City’ by Edward P. Jones
- ‘The Cat’ by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- ‘Leg’ by Stephen Polansky
- ‘The Cold Outside’ by John Burnside
- ‘Stuff’ by Joy Williams
- ‘Horatio’s Trick’ by Ann Beattie
- ‘The Night Of Chancellorsville’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘Home For Christmas’ by Jeffrey Shaffer
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‘The Night Of Chancellorsville’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Night Of Chancellorsville by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1935 Continue reading
February 2018 favorites
The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Brokeback Mountain’ by Annie Proulx
- ‘Daisy’s Valentine’ by Mary Gaitskill
- ‘Clara’ by Roberto Bolaño
- ‘The Wife’ by Jennifer Jordan
- ‘Counting Breaths’ by Rosemarie Robotham
- ‘Last Night’ by James Salter
- ‘Cafeteria’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- ‘- And The Moon Be Still As Bright’ by Ray Bradbury
- ‘Fedora’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘The Lynching Of Jube Benson’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- ‘Solo On The Drums’ by Ann Petry
- ‘The Stout Gentleman’ by Washington Irving
- ‘The Man Who Disliked Cats’ by P.G. Wodehouse
- ‘Water Child’ by Edwidge Danticat
- ‘The Lost Decade’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘Living’ by Grace Paley
- ‘Between The Halves’ by John O’Hara
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