Cold And Sunny by Maeve Brennan, 1981 Continue reading
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December 2021 favorites
December 2021
The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Meneseteung’ by Alice Munro
- ‘Another Christmas’ by William Trevor
- ‘Cold And Sunny’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘Mr. Salary’ by Sally Rooney
- ‘Naga’ by R.K. Narayan
- ‘Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes’ by M.J. Hyland
- ‘You Are My Dear Friend’ by Madhuri Vijay
- ‘Rape Fantasies’ by Margaret Atwood
- ‘The Leaf-Sweeper’ by Muriel Spark
- ‘Midnight Mass’ by Machado de Assis
- ‘A Voyage To Cythera’ by Margaret Drabble
- ‘American Dreams’ by Peter Carey
- ‘Weekend’ by Shirley Hazzard
- ‘The Homecoming’ by Rabindraneth Tagore
- ‘Spirit Of Christmas’ by Jeanette Winterson
- ‘Our Sleeping Lungs Opened To The Cold’ by Elizabeth Tan
- ‘You Are Happy?’ by Akhil Sharma
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August 2021 favorites
August 2021
The August stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Mad Lomasneys’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘Bluebell Meadow’ by Benedict Kiely
- ‘Bravado’ by William Trevor
- ‘Upturned’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘The Trout’ by Sean O’Faolain
- ‘News For The Church’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘The Mouth Of The Cave’ by Edna O’Brien
- ‘The Day We Got Our Own Back’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘Unread Messages’ by Sally Rooney
- ‘The Majesty Of The Law’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘Lord Emsworth Acts For The Best’ by P.G. Wodehouse
- ‘The Sugawn Chair’ by Sean O’Faolain
- ‘Unholy Living And Half Dying’ by Sean O’Faolain
- ‘Color And Light’ by Sally Rooney
- ‘The Wine Breath’ by John McGahern
- ‘Everything In This Country Must’ by Colum McCann
- ‘A Dead Cert’ by Sean O’Faolain
- ‘The Poteen Maker’ by Michael McLaverty
- ‘Up The Bare Stairs’ by Sean O’Faolain
- ‘Who’s-Dead McCarthy’ by Kevin Barry
- ‘The Curfew’ by Roddy Doyle
- ‘Judas’ by Frank O’Connor
- ‘Legend For A Painting’ by Julia O’Faolain
- ‘On The Empty Shore’ by Seosamh Mac Grianna
- ‘(She Owns) Every Thing’ by Anne Enright
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‘The Day We Got Our Own Back’ by Maeve Brennan
The Day We Got Our Own Back by Maeve Brennan, 1953 Continue reading
November 2020 favorites
November 2020
The November stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Love Letter’ by George Saunders
- ‘A Temporary Matter’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
- ‘The Lie’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘The Dead’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘The Lady With The Pet Dog’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘The Clever One’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘Going To Meet The Man’ by James Baldwin
- ‘Horses In The Night’ by Margaret Laurence
- ‘The Turn Of The Screw’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘The Old Man Of The Sea’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘The Metamorphosis’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘The Devil In Us’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘The Barrel Of Rumors’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘Fern’ by Jean Toomer
- ‘John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘The Boy Who Painted Christ Black’ by John Henrik Clarke
- ‘Mouses’ by Thom Jones
- ‘Housewife’ by Amy Hempel
- ‘Where I Lived, And What I Lived For’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘My Brother At The Canadian Border’ by Sholeh Wolpé
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‘The Barrel Of Rumors’ by Maeve Brennan
The Barrel Of Rumors by Maeve Brennan, 1954 Continue reading
‘The Devil In Us’ by Maeve Brennan
The Devil In Us by Maeve Brennan, 1954 Continue reading
‘The Old Man Of The Sea’ by Maeve Brennan
The Old Man Of The Sea by Maeve Brennan, 1955 Continue reading
‘The Lie’ by Maeve Brennan
The Lie by Maeve Brennan, 1953 Continue reading
‘The Clever One’ by Maeve Brennan
The Clever One by Maeve Brennan, 1953 Continue reading