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April 2023 favorites

April 2023

The April stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Intertextuality’ by Mary Gordon
  2. ‘Leopard’ by Wells Tower
  3. ‘The Coast Of Leitrim’ by Kevin Barry
  4. ‘The Ship Ahoy’ by Ursula K. Le Guin
  5. ‘Cat In The Rain’ by Ernest Hemingway
  6. ‘Mother Savage’ by Guy de Maupassant
  7. ‘Sex Scenes From A Chain Book Store’ by Aryn Kyle
  8. ‘Flights’ by Alice Adams
  9. ‘A Sister’s Confession’ by Guy de Maupassant
  10. ‘The Lying Bee’ by John Henrik Clarke
  11. ‘A Country Wedding’ by Laurie Colwin
  12. ‘Are You In Love?’ by Alice Adams
  13. ‘The Balloon’ by Donald Barthelme
  14. ‘Beautiful Girl’ by Alice Adams
  15. ‘Lifeguard’ by John Updike
  16. ‘Edna In Rain’ by Marie-Helene Bertino
  17. ‘The Last Married Man’ by Alice Adams
  18. ‘The Last Lovely City’ by Alice Adams
  19. ‘The Day Before The Revolution’ by Ursula K. Le Guin
  20. ‘A Domestic Dilemma’ by Carson McCullers
  21. ‘The Great Hug’ by Donald Barthelme
  22. ‘Son Of Friedman’ by Emma Cline
  23. ‘The Presentation On Egypt’ by Camille Bordas
  24. ‘Heart Of Hearts’ by Emily Temple
  25. ‘Comma’ by Hilary Mantel
  26. ‘At The Zoo’ by Caitlin Horrocks
  27. ‘Rain, Rain, Go Away’ by Isaac Asimov
  28. ‘Tapioca Surprise’ by William Goyen
  29. ‘The Company Is Not Responsible’ by Mary McCarthy
  30. ‘Ex Parte’ by Ring Lardner

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November 2020 favorites

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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