September 2023
The September stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.
- ‘The Pretty Daughters’ by John O’Hara
- ‘Concord 34’ by Sally Rooney
- ‘Mojave Rats’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
- ‘Ordinary Sins’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
- ‘Miss Anna’s Asleep’ by Jesse Stuart
- ‘Bestiary’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘The Strength Of God’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘On The Agenda’ by Lore Segal
- ‘This Farm For Sale’ by Jesse Stuart
- ‘Wrens And Starling’ by J.F. Powers
- ‘The Teacher’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘The Boundary’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
- ‘Adventure’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘My Girls’ by John O’Hara
- ‘Turn Back The Bed’ by Wendell Berry
- ‘Roy’ by Timothy Willis Sanders
- ‘The Boy Upstairs’ by Joshua Ferris
- ‘The Thinker’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘Battle With The Bees’ by Jesse Stuart
- ‘As Ye Sows, So Shall Ye Reap’ by Jesse Stuart
- ‘A Big Night’ by Leslie Norris
- ‘Old Hope’ by Clare Sestanovich
- ‘You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There’ by Elizabeth Taylor
- ‘The Discovery Of Kentucky’ by Wendell Berry
- ‘Trash’ by Souvankham Thammavongsa
- ‘The Woman The Book Read’ by Sarah Hall
- ‘Respectability’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘Tandy’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘A Ribbon For Baldy’ by Jesse Stuart
- ‘Loneliness’ by Sherwood Anderson
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