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Alex McCullough is 75% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(the nine-tailed fox explains - 3.5) the fragmented structure, like a bad soup, didn’t agree with me. but the concept is so good that i can’t give this less than 3 stars. i would’ve benefited from some contextual familiarity with chinese mythology before going in methinks
Apr 18, 2026 11:06AM Add a comment
The Best American Short Stories 2020

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 70% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(howl palace - 4.5) romanticizing alaska again. send aid in the form of caribou burgers
Apr 16, 2026 06:35AM Add a comment
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Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 65% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(liberté - 1.5) this story was so dully written that i went an entire page and realized i was reading the words but in my head i was watching veep and i hadn’t processed a single word i’d read. and then i turned the page
Apr 09, 2026 05:21AM Add a comment
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Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 60% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(it’s not you - 5) this is one of those stories that reignites my love for reading and writing and everything else for which my love needs the occasional reignition. probably my favorite of the collection so far
Apr 08, 2026 08:52PM Add a comment
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Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 55% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(rubberdust - 3.5) went to the noor naga school for mfa metafiction and passed with… walking colors
Apr 07, 2026 11:08AM 1 comment
The Best American Short Stories 2020

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 50% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(the children - 1.5) so straightforward and sterile as to be borderline unreadable. what was the point even
Apr 04, 2026 09:49PM Add a comment
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Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 45% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(in the event - 4) *thumbs up emoji*
Apr 04, 2026 09:18PM Add a comment
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Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 40% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(this is pleasure - 4.5) the ending is so haunting. they never learn
Mar 30, 2026 05:50PM Add a comment
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Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 35% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(something street - 2) i’m sure this is a great story for those who were alive/conscious for the fall of bill cosby and can recognize all the references but i was BORED!!! and CONFUSED!!!
Mar 28, 2026 10:46AM Add a comment
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Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is on page 84 of 248 of Will There Ever Be Another You
the susanna clarke reference… i will never be free of fucking piranesi
Mar 25, 2026 09:56PM Add a comment
Will There Ever Be Another You

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 30% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(halloween - 4.5) tales of a twelfth-grade messy bisexual
Mar 22, 2026 06:33AM Add a comment
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Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 25% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(the nanny - 5) this story really never gets old
Mar 20, 2026 02:12PM Add a comment
The Best American Short Stories 2020

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 20% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(sibling rivalry - 5) black mirror, you have the opportunity of a lifetime
Mar 19, 2026 08:45AM Add a comment
The Best American Short Stories 2020

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is starting No Exit
time for an unfortunately seasonal read
Mar 17, 2026 12:58PM Add a comment
No Exit

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 15% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed - 3.25) Funny and voicey but ultimately went nowhere, to the effect of feeling eerie and unbaked where I don’t think it intended to be
Mar 09, 2026 05:30AM Add a comment
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Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 10% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(T.C. Boyle, The Apartment - 5) If I were Marie-Thérèse this story would have gone differently and that’s all I’m going to say
Mar 05, 2026 09:47AM Add a comment
The Best American Short Stories 2020

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 5% done with The Best American Short Stories 2020
(Godmother Tea - 3.75) Girlfailure diaries. Prose was so good it sometimes got tangled up in its own goodness and became needlessly difficult, but! I enjoyed it nevertheless
Mar 04, 2026 10:13PM Add a comment
The Best American Short Stories 2020

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 99% done with Black Swans
Black Swans - 4
Feb 26, 2026 07:03AM Add a comment
Black Swans

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 88% done with Black Swans
(Coco - 3.5) Okay sure. The female circumcision and AIDS crises in Africa are exactly like your friend Coco who died. Why the hell not.
Feb 22, 2026 06:31AM Add a comment
Black Swans

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 77% done with Black Swans
(Weird August - 3) Nothing burger story but I’m August’s #1 hater so maybe I’m biased
Feb 21, 2026 06:23AM Add a comment
Black Swans

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 66% done with Black Swans
(Tangoland - 3.5) Best writing of the collection so far but a bit bloated, I fear, and more of a pseudo-essay with a really great short story trapped inside that I would’ve preferred to read instead
Feb 20, 2026 09:45AM Add a comment
Black Swans

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 55% done with Black Swans
(Expensive Regrets - 2) I’m sorry, but this story was such a chore to get through, and the random Israel glazing didn’t help matters
Feb 19, 2026 07:46AM Add a comment
Black Swans

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 44% done with Black Swans
(Self-Enchanted City - 4) STOPPP making me romanticize living in Hollywood!!! I hate the sun!!!!!!!
Jan 19, 2026 04:59AM Add a comment
Black Swans

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 33% done with Black Swans
(Free Tibet - 4.5) There are Veep references everywhere for those with the eyes to see
Jan 17, 2026 06:12AM Add a comment
Black Swans

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 22% done with Black Swans
(Slumming at the Rodeo Gardens - 3.75) The male looksmaxxing epidemic is connected to this but I can’t place my finger on exactly how…
Nov 27, 2025 01:19PM Add a comment
Black Swans

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 11% done with Black Swans
(Jealousy - 3) Okay I might have been misled as to what to expect from this collection because this story is giving undergraduate creative nonfiction workshop
Nov 21, 2025 10:36PM Add a comment
Black Swans

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 96% done with Birds of America: Stories
(Terrific Mother - 3.75) An English Lit PhD candidate somewhere is slaving over a thesis on American story collections where the last story is set overseas and what this means for The Economy or something
Nov 15, 2025 11:56AM Add a comment
Birds of America: Stories

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 88% done with Birds of America: Stories
(People Like That Are the Only People Here - 5) Claudia Osk, your days are numbered.
Nov 15, 2025 09:22AM Add a comment
Birds of America: Stories

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 80% done with Birds of America: Stories
(Real Estate - 5) Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Nov 15, 2025 07:21AM Add a comment
Birds of America: Stories

Alex McCullough
Alex McCullough is 72% done with Birds of America: Stories
(What You Want to Do Fine - 3) A little messy, but very funny
Nov 09, 2025 08:19PM Add a comment
Birds of America: Stories

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