A Family Supper by Kazuo Ishiguro, 1982 Continue reading
Tag: Flannery O’Connor
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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‘Greenleaf’ by Flannery O’Connor
Greenleaf by Flannery O’Connor, 1956 Continue reading
‘The Faithful’ by James Alan McPherson
The Faithful by James Alan McPherson, 1973 Continue reading
January 2019 favorites
January 2019
The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Beginning Of A Long Story’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘The Point’ by Charles D’Ambrosio
- ‘Guests Of The Nation’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘Voices’ by Alice Munro
- ‘Dear Life’ by Alice Munro
- ‘The Enduring Chill’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘The Eye’ by Alice Munro
- ‘Armistice’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘O Youth And Beauty’ by John Cheever
- ‘Real Estate’ by Lorrie Moore
- ‘Night’ by Alice Munro
- ‘The Trouble With Mrs. Blynn, The Trouble With The World’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen’ by Graham Greene
- ‘The Slaves In New York’ by Tama Janowitz
- ‘Batman And Robin Have An Altercation’ by Stephen King
- ‘Tied In A Bow’ by Langston Hughes
- ‘The Stranger’ by Rainer Maria Rilke
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‘The Enduring Chill’ by Flannery O’Connor
The Enduring Chill by Flannery O’Connor, 1958 Continue reading
August 2018 favorites
August 2018
The August stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Comforts Of Home’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘Petrified Man’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Where Is The Voice Coming From?’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Hair’ by William Faulkner
- ‘Dogs Go Wolf’ by Lauren Groff
- ‘A Pair Of Silk Stockings’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘Lily Daw And The Three Ladies’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed’ by Barry Hannah
- ‘My Side Of The Matter’ by Truman Capote
- ‘The Homecoming’ by Frank Yerby
- ‘A Memory’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘The Confidence Man’ by George Garrett
- ‘A Curtain Of Green’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Wunderkind’ by Carson McCullers
- ‘The Man With Two Left Feet’ by P.G. Wodehouse
- ‘Porte-Cochere’ by Peter Taylor
- ‘A Mother’s Tale’ by James Agee
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‘The Comforts Of Home’ by Flannery O’Connor
The Comforts Of Home by Flannery O’Connor, 1965 Continue reading