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‘The Happiest I’ve Been’ by John Updike
The Happiest I’ve Been by John Updike, 1959 Continue reading
December 2022 favorites
December 2022
The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Read This And Tell Me What It Says’ by A. Manette Ansay
- ‘The Happiest I’ve Been’ by John Updike
- ‘A Jury Of Her Peers’ by Susan Glaspell
- ‘God Writes A Bad Hand’ by J.F. Powers
- ‘Naked Ladies’ by Antonya Nelson
- ‘The Champ’ by Pedro Juan Soto
- ‘Sybil’ by A. Manette Ansay
- ‘Grandma’s Wake’ by Emilio Díaz Valcárcel
- ‘Changes In Louise’ by Tom Drury
- ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Agnes Of Iowa’ by Lorrie Moore
- ‘Kansas’ by Antonya Nelson
- ‘Camping Out’ by James Wilcox
- ‘Beautiful Grade’ by Lorrie Moore
- ‘Purification On Cristo Street’ by René Marqués
- ‘Spit In The Governor’s Tea’ by Shay Youngblood
- ‘Peyo Mercé: English Teacher’ by Abelardo Díaz Alfaro
- ‘Dundun’ by Denis Johnson
- ‘The Way Of The World’ by Willa Cather
- ‘One Christmas’ by Truman Capote
- ‘The Artichoke’ by Marilyn Krysl
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May 2022 favorites
May 2022
The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Children On Their Birthdays’ by Truman Capote
- ‘A View Of The Woods’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘Complicities’ by Alice Adams
- ‘This Is Paradise’ by Kristiana Kahakauwila
- ‘Birdland’ by Michael Knight
- ‘Consolation’ by Richard Bausch
- ‘Strange Moonlight’ by Conrad Aiken
- ‘The Quest For “Blank Claveringi”’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘Sucker’ by Carson McCullers
- ‘Buck Boy’ by James McBride
- ‘Friends From Philadelphia’ by John Updike
- ‘To Hell With Dying’ by Alice Walker
- ‘The Devil And Daniel Webster’ by Stephen Vincent Benét
- ‘The Local Production Of Cinderella’ by Allegra Goodman
- ‘Young Francis Whitehead’ by William Maxwell
- ‘Playing Before Royalty’ by Ian MacMillan
- ‘The Child Screams And Looks Back At You’ by Russell Banks
- ‘The Intermediate Class’ by Sam Allingham
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‘Friends From Philadelphia’ by John Updike
Friends From Philadelphia by John Updike, 1954 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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‘Giving Blood’ by John Updike
Giving Blood by John Updike, 1963 Continue reading
January 2022 favorites
January 2022
The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Whole World Knows’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Clytie’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘The Family Meadow’ by John Updike
- ‘Travis, B.’ by Maile Meloy
- ‘Ava Wrestles The Alligator’ by Karen Russell
- ‘Displaced’ by Richard Ford
- ‘Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976’ by Maile Meloy
- ‘Uncle High Lonesome’ by Barry Hannah
- ‘Alaska’ by Alice Adams
- ‘Riddle’ by Thomas McGuane
- ‘Flower Hunters’ by Lauren Groff
- ‘Treasure State’ by Smith Henderson
- ‘Magnolia Flower’ by Zora Neale Hurston
- ‘Happy’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘Without Inspection’ by Edwidge Danticat
- ‘FAQs’ by Allegra Goodman
- ‘Boys’ by Rick Moody
- ‘Through The Safety Net’ by Charles Baxter
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‘The Family Meadow’ by John Updike
The Family Meadow by John Updike, 1965 Continue reading
September 2020 favorites
September 2020
The September stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Heaven’ by Mary Gaitskill
- ‘The First Seven Years’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘The Profile’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Simmering’ by Margaret Atwood
- ‘The Mourners’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘On The Divide’ by Willa Cather
- ‘The Garden Lodge’ by Willa Cather
- ‘My Son The Murderer’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘Angel Levine’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘Dirty Deceivers’ by Chester Himes
- ‘The Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set’ by James McBride
- ‘My Flamboyant Grandson’ by George Saunders
- ‘Cooking Lesson’ by Rosario Castellanos
- ‘Dragged Fighting From His Tomb’ by Barry Hannah
- ‘The Egg Race’ by John Updike
- ‘The Namesake’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Cortés And Montezuma’ by Donald Barthelme
- ‘The Children’ by Andrea Lee
- ‘Cranberry Relish’ by Katherine Heiny
- ‘The Richer, The Poorer’ by Dorothy West
- ‘The Doctor And The Rabbi’ by Aimee Bender
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