A Wagner Matinée by Willa Cather, 1904 Continue reading
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‘The Sentimentality Of William Tavener’ by Willa Cather
The Sentimentality Of William Tavener by Willa Cather, 1900 Continue reading
September 2020 favorites
The September stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Heaven’ by Mary Gaitskill
- ‘The First Seven Years’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘The Profile’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Simmering’ by Margaret Atwood
- ‘The Mourners’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘On The Divide’ by Willa Cather
- ‘The Garden Lodge’ by Willa Cather
- ‘My Son The Murderer’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘Angel Levine’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘Dirty Deceivers’ by Chester Himes
- ‘The Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set’ by James McBride
- ‘My Flamboyant Grandson’ by George Saunders
- ‘Cooking Lesson’ by Rosario Castellanos
- ‘Dragged Fighting From His Tomb’ by Barry Hannah
- ‘The Egg Race’ by John Updike
- ‘The Namesake’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Cortés And Montezuma’ by Donald Barthelme
- ‘The Children’ by Andrea Lee
- ‘Cranberry Relish’ by Katherine Heiny
- ‘The Richer, The Poorer’ by Dorothy West
- ‘The Doctor And The Rabbi’ by Aimee Bender
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‘On The Divide’ by Willa Cather
On The Divide by Willa Cather, 1896 Continue reading
‘The Profile’ by Willa Cather
The Profile by Willa Cather, 1907 Continue reading
‘The Garden Lodge’ by Willa Cather
The Garden Lodge by Willa Cather, 1905 Continue reading
‘The Namesake’ by Willa Cather
The Namesake by Willa Cather, 1907 Continue reading
August 2020 favorites
August 2020 Continue reading
‘A Gold Slipper’ by Willa Cather
A Gold Slipper by Willa Cather, 1917 Continue reading
March 2020 favorites
March 2020
The March stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘Wakefield’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘The Death Of A Government Clerk’ by Anton Chekhov
- ‘A Dead Woman’s Secrets’ by Guy de Maupassant
- ‘Her Letters’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘The Birth-Mark’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘The Lightning-Rod Man’ by Herman Melville
- ‘The Pelican’ by Edith Wharton
- ‘Wild Frank’s Return’ by Walt Whitman
- ‘A Winter Courtship’ by Sarah Orne Jewett
- ‘My Friend Bingham’ by Henry James
- ‘The Haunted Mind’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘Nanette: An Aside’ by Willa Cather
- ‘The Striding Place’ by Gertrude Atherton
- ‘Is He Living Or Is He Dead?’ by Mark Twain
- ‘The Maypole Of Merry-Mount’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘Legend Of The Two Discreet Statues’ by Washington Irving
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