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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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April 2021 favorites

April 2021

The April stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Mother’ by Natalia Ginzburg
  2. ‘A Lodging For The Night’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
  3. ‘A Day In The Country’ by Dan Jacobson
  4. ‘The House Of The Famous Poet’ by Muriel Spark
  5. ‘The Clearing’ by Luisa Mercedes Levinson
  6. ‘The Life Of The Imagination’ by Nadine Gordimer
  7. ‘Doctors’ by Anneliese Mackintosh
  8. ‘Tony Takitani’ by Haruki Murakami
  9. ‘The Pet’ by Nadine Gordimer
  10. ‘The Tiger Of The Plains’ by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
  11. ‘Crabs’ by Haruki Murakami
  12. ‘The Rise And Fall Of Sharpie Cakes’ by Haruki Murakami
  13. ‘Night Calls’ by Lisa Fugard
  14. ‘As You Would Have Told It To Me (Sort Of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died’ by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
  15. ‘The Shinagawa Monkey’ by Haruki Murakami
  16. ‘The Yellow Paint’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
  17. ‘How To Travel With A Salmon’ by Umberto Eco
  18. ‘He Who Listens May Hear – To His Regret: Confidence Of A Confidence’ by Juana Manuela Gorriti
  19. ‘The Stump-Grubber’ by Torgny Lindgren
  20. ‘The Little Green Monster’ by Haruki Murakami
  21. ‘A Leading Role’ by Tove Jansson
  22. ‘The Braider’ by Ricardo Güiraldes

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