Tag: Jean Toomer

November 2020

The November stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Love Letter’ by George Saunders
2. ‘A Temporary Matter’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
3. ‘The Lie’ by Maeve Brennan
4. ‘The Dead’ by Joyce Carol Oates
5. ‘The Lady With The Pet Dog’ by Joyce Carol Oates
6. ‘The Clever One’ by Maeve Brennan
7. ‘Going To Meet The Man’ by James Baldwin
8. ‘Horses In The Night’ by Margaret Laurence
9. ‘The Turn Of The Screw’ by Joyce Carol Oates
10. ‘The Old Man Of The Sea’ by Maeve Brennan
11. ‘The Metamorphosis’ by Joyce Carol Oates
12. ‘The Devil In Us’ by Maeve Brennan
13. ‘The Barrel Of Rumors’ by Maeve Brennan
14. ‘Fern’ by Jean Toomer
15. ‘John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
16. ‘The Boy Who Painted Christ Black’ by John Henrik Clarke
17. ‘Mouses’ by Thom Jones
18. ‘Housewife’ by Amy Hempel
19. ‘Where I Lived, And What I Lived For’ by Joyce Carol Oates
20. ‘My Brother At The Canadian Border’ by Sholeh Wolpé

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