Tag: Jean Stafford
‘The Shorn Lamb’ by Jean Stafford
The Shorn Lamb by Jean Stafford, 1953 Continue reading
November 2022 favorites
November 2022
The November stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Reunion’ by Julie Schumacher
- ‘Caveat Emptor’ by Joan Hess
- ‘Ashes’ by Cristina Henríquez
- ‘The Wellman Twins’ by Mary Robison
- ‘Chasing Birds’ by Cristina Henríquez
- ‘Too Much To Bare’ by Joan Hess
- ‘Nebraska’ by Ron Hansen
- ‘Drive’ by Cristina Henríquez
- ‘That Thing Around Your Neck’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- ‘Polaroid’ by Sally Wells
- ‘Peter’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Correspondence’ by Carson McCullers
- ‘Beatrice Trueblood’s Story’ by Jean Stafford
- ‘Murder At Fork Junction’ by Alston Anderson
- ‘I Get By’ by Mary Robison
- ‘Bad Latch’ by Curtis Sittenfeld
- ‘The Haunter Of The Dark’ by H.P. Lovecraft
- ‘This Is My Living Room’ by Tom McAfee
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‘Beatrice Trueblood’s Story’ by Jean Stafford
Beatrice Trueblood’s Story by Jean Stafford, 1955 Continue reading
March 2022 favorites
March 2022
The March stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Foaling Season’ by Aryn Kyle
- ‘Something That Needs Nothing’ by Miranda July
- ‘The Mountain Day’ by Jean Stafford
- ‘Blackie’ by Elizabeth Spencer
- ‘Tiny In The Wilderness’ by Tom Drury
- ‘Mrs. Box’ by Michael Chabon
- ‘Small Avalanches’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘My Kinsman, Major Molineaux’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘Jacklighting’ by Ann Beattie
- ‘The Prospectors’ by Karen Russell
- ‘A Wagner Matinée’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Nest Egg’ by Jesse Stuart
- ‘On The Oregon Trail’ by Caitlin Horrocks
- ‘The Sentimentality Of William Tavener’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Snakebite’ by Arthur Bradford
- ‘Impulse’ by Conrad Aiken
- ‘Residents And Transients’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
- ‘Giving Blood’ by John Updike
- ‘Rain On Tanyard Hollow’ by Jesse Stuart
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‘The Mountain Day’ by Jean Stafford
The Mountain Day by Jean Stafford, 1956 Continue reading
December 2019 favorites
December 2019
The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Bad Characters’ by Jean Stafford
- ‘The Possibility Of Evil’ by Shirley Jackson
- ‘The Loudest Voice’ by Grace Paley
- ‘Encarnación Mendoza’s Christmas Eve’ by Juan Bosch
- ‘The Discovery Of Christmas’ by Carson McCullers
- ‘The Christmas Turkey’ by Mário de Andrade
- ‘The Artist’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘Mortals’ by Tobias Wolff
- ‘Uncles’ by Peter Taylor
- ‘Santa Claus Is A White Man’ by John Henrik Clarke
- ‘The Cliff’ by Charles Baxter
- ‘Two Turtledoves’ by John O’Hara
- ‘His Final Mother’ by Reynolds Price
- ‘Sleep’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘Rose’ by Mavis Gallant
- ‘On The Street Where You Live’ by Yiyun Li
- ‘All That’ by David Foster Wallace
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‘Bad Characters’ by Jean Stafford
Bad Characters by Jean Stafford, 1954 Continue reading
May 2015 favorites
May 2015
The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Medal From Jerusalem’ by Irwin Shaw
- ‘A Silver Dish’ by Saul Bellow
- ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway
- ‘One Off The Short List’ by Doris Lessing
- ‘Neighbors’ by Diane Oliver
- ‘Drenched In Light’ by Zora Neale Hurston
- ‘The Snows Of Kilimanjaro’ by Ernest Hemingway
- ‘Eli, The Fanatic’ by Philip Roth
- ‘The Gift Of The Prodigal’ by Peter Taylor
- ‘Che Ti Dice La Patria?’ by Ernest Hemingway
- ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ by Ernest Hemingway
- ‘The New Order’ by Nancy Hale
- ‘Three Million Yen’ by Yukio Mishima
- ‘The Supper’ by Tadeusz Borowski
- ‘The Interior Castle’ by Jean Stafford
- ‘How I Contemplated The World From The Detroit House Of Correction And Began My Life Over Again’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘A Simple Enquiry’ by Ernest Hemingway
- ‘Janus’ by Ann Beattie
- ‘Family Portrait’ by Sherman Alexie
- ‘Champion’ by Ring Lardner
- ‘The End Of The World’ by Dino Buzzati
‘The Interior Castle’ by Jean Stafford
The Interior Castle by Jean Stafford, 1947 Continue reading