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February 2022 favorites

February 2022

The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Are You All Right?’ by Wendell Berry
  2. ‘Three-Ten To Yuma’ by Elmore Leonard
  3. ‘Talkin Bout Sonny’ by Toni Cade Bambara
  4. ‘Detroit Skyline 1949’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
  5. ‘Dalyrimple Goes Wrong’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  6. ‘The Terrapin’ by Patricia Highsmith
  7. ‘Something Nice’ by Mary Gaitskill
  8. ‘A Visit’ by Steven Millhauser
  9. ‘Sun City’ by Caitlin Horrocks
  10. ‘The Tin Butterfly’ by Mary McCarthy
  11. ‘Do With Me What You Will’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  12. ‘A Figure Of Speech’ by Tess Gallagher
  13. ‘Death Of A Favorite’ by J.F. Powers
  14. ‘Haircut’ by Ring Lardner
  15. ‘Ghost Patrol’ by Sinclair Lewis
  16. ‘I Walk Between The Raindrops’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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January 2022 favorites

January 2022

The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Whole World Knows’ by Eudora Welty
  2. ‘Clytie’ by Eudora Welty
  3. ‘The Family Meadow’ by John Updike
  4. ‘Travis, B.’ by Maile Meloy
  5. ‘Ava Wrestles The Alligator’ by Karen Russell
  6. ‘Displaced’ by Richard Ford
  7. ‘Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976’ by Maile Meloy
  8. ‘Uncle High Lonesome’ by Barry Hannah
  9. ‘Alaska’ by Alice Adams
  10. ‘Riddle’ by Thomas McGuane
  11. ‘Flower Hunters’ by Lauren Groff
  12. ‘Treasure State’ by Smith Henderson
  13. ‘Magnolia Flower’ by Zora Neale Hurston
  14. ‘Happy’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  15. ‘Without Inspection’ by Edwidge Danticat
  16. ‘FAQs’ by Allegra Goodman
  17. ‘Boys’ by Rick Moody
  18. ‘Through The Safety Net’ by Charles Baxter

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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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