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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