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November 2017 favorites

November 2017

The November stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Offertory’ by Amy Hempel
  2. ‘A Summer Tragedy’ by Arna Bontemps
  3. ‘Who’s Passing For Who?’ by Langston Hughes
  4. ‘He Also Loved’ by Claude McKay
  5. ‘There Was Once’ by Margaret Atwood
  6. ‘The Cut-Glass Bowl’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  7. ‘The Cousins’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  8. ‘Until The Girl Died’ by Anne Enright
  9. ‘And/Or’ by Sterling Brown
  10. ‘Hunting The Deceitful Turkey’ by Mark Twain
  11. ‘The Jockey’ by Carson McCullers
  12. ‘Little Man’ by Michael Cunningham
  13. ‘Love Song, For A Moog Synthesizer’ by John Updike

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November 30, 2017August 30, 2025 by bcw56 Categories: FavoritesTags: Amy Hempel, Anne Enright, Arna Bontemps, Carson McCullers, Claude McKay, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Langston Hughes, Margaret Atwood, Mark Twain, Michael Cunningham, Sterling Brown Leave a comment

‘Little Man’ by Michael Cunningham

Little Man by Michael Cunningham, 2015 Continue reading →

November 21, 2017November 25, 2025 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 2010s, American lit, American literature, analysis, criticism, fairy tales, fiction, Little Man, Michael Cunningham, short stories Leave a comment
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