A Good Location by John O’Hara, 1965 Continue reading
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‘The Flatted Saxophone’ by John O’Hara
The Flatted Saxophone by John O’Hara, 1963 Continue reading
‘Winter Dance’ by John O’Hara
Winter Dance by John O’Hara, 1962 Continue reading
‘Zero’ by John O’Hara
Zero by John O’Hara, 1963 Continue reading
‘How Can I Tell You?’ by John O’Hara
How Can I Tell You? by John O’Hara, 1963 Continue reading
September 2023 favorites
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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‘The Pretty Daughters’ by John O’Hara
The Pretty Daughters by John O’Hara, 1945 Continue reading
‘My Girls’ by John O’Hara
My Girls by John O’Hara, 1937 Continue reading
December 2019 favorites
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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‘Two Turtledoves’ by John O’Hara
Two Turtledoves by John O’Hara, 1961 Continue reading




