Sarah Cole: A Type Of Love Story by Russell Banks, 1984 Continue reading
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‘Former Marine’ by Russell Banks
Former Marine by Russell Banks, 2013 Continue reading
January 2024 favorites
January 2024
The January stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.
- ‘City Of Churches’ by Donald Barthelme
- ‘In The Cart’ by Anton Chekhov
- ‘Parker’s Back’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘Death’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘Sophistication’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘Harrison Bergeron’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- ‘The Continuity Of Parks’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘The Night’s For Cryin’’ by Chester Himes
- ‘Love Is Not A Pie’ by Amy Bloom
- ‘The House Behind’ by Lydia Davis
- ‘Queer’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘The Untold Lie’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘Fjord Of Killary’ by Kevin Barry
- ‘Drink’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘U.F.O. In Kushiro’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘Ruthy And Edie’ by Grace Paley
- ‘What It Takes To Keep A Young Girl Alive’ by Jayne Anne Phillips
- ‘In A Different Light’ by Elizabeth Taylor
- ‘Departure’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘An Awakening’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘Under The Boardwalk’ by Jayne Anne Phillips
- ‘One Night In New Jersey’ by Chester Himes
- ‘It’s Not You’ by Elizabeth McCracken
- ‘Three Popes Walk Into A Bar’ by Amy Hempel
- ‘My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, And Other True Stories’ by Russell Banks
- ‘Pool Night’ by Amy Hempel
- ‘Thunderbirds: Who, Why, and How’ by Rebecca Scherm
- ‘University Days’ by James Thurber
- ‘An Enigmatic Nature’ by Anton Chekhov
- ‘The New Lodger’ by Amy Hempel
- ‘Detour’ by Évelyne Trouillot
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‘My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, And Other True Stories’ by Russell Banks
My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, And Other True Stories by Russell Banks, 1986 Continue reading
November 2023 favorites
November 2023 Continue reading
‘The Caul’ by Russell Banks
The Caul by Russell Banks, 1978 Continue reading
February 2023 favorites
The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Dead Men’s Path’ by Chinua Achebe
- ‘At The Clinic’ by Sally Rooney
- ‘Secret Weapons’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘Bliss’ by Katherine Mansfield
- ‘Every Tongue Shall Confess’ by ZZ Packer
- ‘In The Name Of Bobby’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘The Cold Boy’ by Benjamin Percy
- ‘Ain’t That Good News’ by Brit Bennett
- ‘The Pace Of Youth’ by Stephen Crane
- ‘I Am Twenty-One’ by Mary Robison
- ‘The Daughters’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘Ray-Ray’s Picture Box’ by James McBride
- ‘Smart’ by Mary Robison
- ‘My Apology’ by Sam Lipsyte
- ‘Billboard’ by Richard Bausch
- ‘Ozème’s Holiday’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘The Waltz’ by Dorothy Parker
- ‘The Green Door’ by O. Henry
- ‘In The Woods’ by Mary Robison
- ‘Sugar Baby’ by Chinua Achebe
- ‘Some Like Them Cold’ by Ring Lardner
- ‘My Last Story’ by Janet Frame
- ‘Haunted’ by Walter Mosley
- ‘Yancey’ by Ann Beattie
- ‘The Neighbor’ by Russell Banks
- ‘A Deserted Street’ by Tawfiq Al-Hakim
- ‘Top Of The Food Chain’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- ‘Miracles’ by Lucy Corin
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‘The Neighbor’ by Russell Banks
The Neighbor by Russell Banks, 1975 Continue reading
May 2022 favorites
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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‘The Child Screams And Looks Back At You’ by Russell Banks
The Child Screams And Looks Back At You by Russell Banks, 1981 Continue reading






