March 2015 favorites

March 2015

The March stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Semplica Girl Diaries’ by George Saunders
  2. ‘Paper Lantern’ by Stuart Dybek
  3. ‘Adams’ by George Saunders
  4. ‘If I Vanish’ by Stuart Dybek
  5. ‘Victory Lap’ by George Saunders
  6. ‘Al Roosten’ by George Saunders
  7. ‘Puppy’ by George Saunders
  8. ‘Home’ by George Saunders
  9. ‘Waiting’ by Stuart Dybek
  10. ‘Seiche’ by Stuart Dybek
  11. ‘The Rookie’ by Eliot Asinof
  12. ‘Goodwood Comes Back’ by Robert Penn Warren
  13. ‘Escape From Spiderhead’ by George Saunders
  14. ‘Brooklyns Lose’ by William Human
  15. ‘Tosca’ by Stuart Dybek
  16. ‘Jon’ by George Saunders
  17. ‘Flight Patterns’ by Sherman Alexie
  18. ‘The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven’ by Sherman Alexie
  19. ‘The Hector Quesadilla Story’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  20. ‘Breaking And Entering’ by Sherman Alexie
  21. ‘Exhortation’ by George Saunders
  22. ‘The Fun House’ by Sherman Alexie
  23. ‘Sticks’ by George Saunders
  24. ‘Indian Education’ by Sherman Alexie

July 2014 favorites

July 2014

The July stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1.       ‘Hot Ice’ by Stuart Dybek
2.       ‘The Babysitter’ by Robert Coover
3.       ‘Jeeves And The Impending Doom’ by P.G. Wodehouse
4.       ‘A Solo Song: For Doc’ by James Alan McPherson
5.       ‘City Boy’ by Leonard Michaels
6.       ‘You’re Ugly, Too’ by Lorrie Moore
7.       ‘The Flats Road’ by Alice Munro
8.       ‘Greasy Lake’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
9.       ‘Train’ by Joy Williams
10.     ‘Testimony Of Pilot’ by Barry Hannah
11.     ‘The Joy Luck Club’ by Amy Tan
12.    ‘Liars In Love’ by Richard Yates
13.     ‘How To Date A Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, Or Halfie)’ by Junot Diaz
14.    ‘A Poetics For Bullies’ by Stanley Elkin
15.     ‘Greenwich Time’ by Ann Beattie
16.     ‘Pretty Ice’ by Mary Robison
17.     ‘Lechery’ by Jayne Anne Phillips
18.     ‘Here Come The Maples’ by John Updike
19.     ‘Territory’ by David Leavitt
20.     ‘Bridging’ by Max Apple
21.     ‘The Circling Hand’ by Jamaica Kincaid
22.     ‘Are These Actual Miles?’ by Raymond Carver
23.     ‘The Other Wife’ by Colette
24.     ‘A.V. Laider’ by Max Beerbohm
25.     ‘White Rat’ by Gayl Jones
26.     ‘Search Through The Streets Of The City’ by Irwin Shaw
27.     ‘The Dead Man’ by Horacio Quiroga
28.     ‘A Life In The Day Of A Writer’ by Tess Slesinger
29.     ‘In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Country’ by William Gass
30.     ‘The Indian Uprising’ by Donald Barthelme
31.     ‘The Facts Of Life’ by Somerset Maugham