Tag: Flannery O’Connor
‘The Partridge Festival’ by Flannery O’Connor
The Partridge Festival by Flannery O’Connor, 1961 Continue reading
August 2022 favorites
August 2022
The August stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Murder’ by John Steinbeck
- ‘San Francisco’ by Amy Hempel
- ‘Iona Moon’ by Melanie Rae Thon
- ‘The Canoeists’ by Rick Bass
- ‘The Walk’ by Elizabeth Strout
- ‘Snow Blind’ by Elizabeth Strout
- ‘The Train’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘Greyhound People’ by Alice Adams
- ‘Elk’ by Rick Bass
- ‘The Story Of Keesh’ by Jack London
- ‘Fish And Fences’ by Veeda Bybee
- ‘Son In The Afternoon’ by John A. Williams
- ‘Officer Friendly’ by Lewis Robinson
- ‘Going To Shrewsbury’ by Sarah Orne Jewett
- ‘The Go-Getter’ by P.G. Wodehouse
- ‘The Naked Lady’ by Madison Smartt Bell
- ‘The Walled Garden’ by Peter Taylor
- ‘The Alaska Of Giants And Gods’ by Dave Eggers
- ‘From 100 Elvis Stories’ by Lisa Walker
- ‘What I Hear’ by Mary Robison
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‘The Train’ by Flannery O’Connor
The Train by Flannery O’Connor, 1948 Continue reading
May 2022 favorites
May 2022
The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Children On Their Birthdays’ by Truman Capote
- ‘A View Of The Woods’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘Complicities’ by Alice Adams
- ‘This Is Paradise’ by Kristiana Kahakauwila
- ‘Birdland’ by Michael Knight
- ‘Consolation’ by Richard Bausch
- ‘Strange Moonlight’ by Conrad Aiken
- ‘The Quest For “Blank Claveringi”’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘Sucker’ by Carson McCullers
- ‘Buck Boy’ by James McBride
- ‘Friends From Philadelphia’ by John Updike
- ‘To Hell With Dying’ by Alice Walker
- ‘The Devil And Daniel Webster’ by Stephen Vincent Benét
- ‘The Local Production Of Cinderella’ by Allegra Goodman
- ‘Young Francis Whitehead’ by William Maxwell
- ‘Playing Before Royalty’ by Ian MacMillan
- ‘The Child Screams And Looks Back At You’ by Russell Banks
- ‘The Intermediate Class’ by Sam Allingham
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‘A View Of The Woods’ by Flannery O’Connor
A View Of The Woods by Flannery O’Connor, 1957 Continue reading
‘A Family Supper’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Family Supper by Kazuo Ishiguro, 1982 Continue reading
October 2020 favorites
October 2020
The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Sphinx’ by Edgar Allan Poe
- ‘The Pram’ by Roddy Doyle
- ‘The Invalid, Or The Bedridden’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘The Female Novelist’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘Stone Mattress’ by Margaret Atwood
- ‘The Coquette’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘Mark Of Satan’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘The Adventure Of The German Student’ by Washington Irving
- ‘You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘Paranoia’ by Shirley Jackson
- ‘The Hand’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘The Fully Licensed Whore, Or, The Wife’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘The Mirror’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘Asleep In Armageddon’ by Ray Bradbury
- ‘The Middle-Class Housewife’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘The Breeder’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid’ by H.G. Wells
- ‘The Bold Dragoon, Or The Adventure Of My Grandfather’ by Washington Irving
- ‘The Annex’ by Amy Hempel
- ‘The Afterlife’ by Jonathan Lethem
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‘You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead’ by Flannery O’Connor
You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead by Flannery O’Connor, 1955 Continue reading
January 2020 favorites
January 2020
The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘A Jonquil For Mary Penn’ by Wendell Berry
- ‘A Half-Pint Of Old Darling’ by Wendell Berry
- ‘Greenleaf’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘The Woman Who Came At Six O’Clock’ by Gabriel García Márquez
- ‘One Of These Days’ by Gabriel García Márquez
- ‘Dismemberment’ by Wendell Berry
- ‘Eyes Of A Blue Dog’ by Gabriel García Márquez
- ‘A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings’ by Gabriel García Márquez
- ‘Goodbye, Pops’ by Joe Gores
- ‘Mother’ by Grace Paley
- ‘Making It Home’ by Wendell Berry
- ‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ by Alan Sillitoe
- ‘Fly Away, Breath’ by Wendell Berry
- ‘Quiet Please’ by Aimee Bender
- ‘Nairobi’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘The Last Voyage Of The Ghost Ship’ by Gabriel García Márquez
- ‘The Hit Man’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- ‘Heart Attack’ by Max Apple
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