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June 2023 favorites

June 2023

The June stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Gorge’ by Umberto Eco
  2. ‘Not Here You Don’t’ by Thomas McGuane
  3. ‘Just Before The War With The Eskimos’ by J.D. Salinger
  4. ‘The Laughing Man’ by J.D. Salinger
  5. ‘Paddle To Canada’ by Heather Monley
  6. ‘Playin With Punjab’ by Toni Cade Bambara
  7. ‘Waves Of Darkness’ by Cord Meyer Jr.
  8. ‘Zero Pineapples’ by Timothy Willis Sanders
  9. ‘Uncle Wiggily In Connecticut’ by J.D. Salinger
  10. ‘Wish’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
  11. ‘First Heat’ by Peter Taylor
  12. ‘Billy Goats’ by Jill McCorkle
  13. ‘Madame Lazarus’ by Maile Meloy
  14. ‘The Entire Northern Side Was Covered With Fire’ by Rivka Galchen
  15. ‘Girls In Their Summer Dresses’ by Irwin Shaw
  16. ‘God’s Work’ by Kevin Canty
  17. ‘The (Unhealthy) Breakfast Club’ by Monica Roe
  18. ‘A Perfect Day For Bananafish’ by J.D. Salinger
  19. ‘An Imperial Message’ by Franz Kafka
  20. ‘It’s Just Another Day In Big Bear, California’ by Ann Beattie
  21. ‘Raft In Water, Floating’ by A.M. Homes
  22. ‘Down At The Dinghy’ by J.D. Salinger
  23. ‘Behind The Blue Curtain’ by Steven Millhauser
  24. ‘The Empress’s Ring’ by Nancy Hale
  25. ‘Flotsam’ by Diane Cook
  26. ‘The Love-Philtre Of Ikey Schoenstein’ by O. Henry
  27. ‘The Night Of The Curlews’ by Gabriel García Márquez
  28. ‘The Scooby-Doo Lunch Box’ by Quinton Bradley
  29. ‘The Deal’ by Leonard Michaels
  30. ‘The Descent Of Man’ by Edith Wharton

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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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September 2018 favorites

September 2018

The September stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Red From Green’ by Maile Meloy
  2. ‘Thirteen And A Half’ by Maile Meloy
  3. ‘Dido’s Lament’ by Tessa Hadley
  4. ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank’ by Nathan Englander
  5. ‘Lobster Night’ by Russell Banks
  6. ‘Tome’ by Maile Meloy
  7. ‘Aqua Boulevard’ by Maile Meloy
  8. ‘Miracle Polish’ by Steven Millhauser
  9. ‘Red’ by Maile Meloy
  10. ‘Grammar Questions’ by Lydia Davis
  11. ‘The Knowers’ by Helen Phillips
  12. ‘Spirituality; With Or Without A Prayer’ by Elmore Leonard
  13. ‘You Must Be This Happy To Enter’ by Elizabeth Crane
  14. ‘Diem Perdidi’ by Julie Otsuka
  15. ‘Watching Mysteries With My Mother’ by Ben Marcus

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April 2018 favorites

April 2018

The April stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Drown’ by Junot Díaz
  2. ‘Good Man, Bad Man’ by Jerome Weidman
  3. ‘Negocios’ by Junot Díaz
  4. ‘Shiloh’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
  5. ‘Ysrael’ by Junot Díaz
  6. ‘Boyfriend’ by Junot Díaz
  7. ‘Aguantando’ by Junot Díaz
  8. ‘No Face’ by Junot Díaz
  9. ‘The Season Of Divorce’ by John Cheever
  10. ‘The Rookers’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
  11. ‘Fiesta, 1980’ by Junot Díaz
  12. ‘Nancy Culpepper’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
  13. ‘Concerning The Bodyguard’ by Donald Barthelme
  14. ‘Everybody Knows Tobie’ by Daniel Garza
  15. ‘In The Reign Of Harad IV’ by Steven Millhauser
  16. ‘Offerings’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
  17. ‘Midair’ by Frank Conroy
  18. ‘Bumblebees’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
  19. ‘The Burning Baby’ by Dylan Thomas

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