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Ok GR I need your recommendations big time. I’m in a short story book club at work and it’s my turn to pick the story. What are your favorite short stories?!? Tell me all!! The last two we read were Flaubert’s Simple Heart and Munro’s Love of a Good Woman, both of which everyone loved or loved to talk about, to give you a general idea of the kind of stuff we read. Thanks in advance!!!
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Araby by Joyce ; The Shout by Graves; Rose for Emily by Faulkner; The Wall by Sartre.
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Tessa Hadley’s are good — the collection Married Love.
"Brownies" by ZZ Packer, "A Temporary Matter" by Jhumpa Lahiri, and "Nilda" or "Fiesta 1980" by Junot Diaz are all fantastic.
Wow thanks you guys! This is amazing. This group loves debatable, meaty stuff that everyone can disagree on and it looks like lot of this fits that well!!
Just read: "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" by Nabokov
Aura, by Carlos Fuentes is amazing. Love your reviews and recommendations!!
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F Scott Fitzgerald.
the husband stitch by carmen maria machado or the prairie wife by curtis sittenfeld
TC Boyle’s "Balto" (was in Nes Yorker then Best American Stories 2005 i believe) about the Hobsons choice a precocious 12 yr old girl has to make between lying to protect jer drunk of a father in court or tell8ng the truth and getting child services involved! (a lot more ambiguous than that but...)
The 39 steps, Sweet Bean paste for a bit of Japanese fiction. Or Convenience store woman
The movie The Birds was based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier (I believe it's also called The Birds). The story is much scarier than the movie. Don't know if that would be of interest.
"The Last Disarmament but One" by Joseph McElroy, "Puss-in-Boots" by Angela Carter, “Brain Cell 9,999,999,999” by Paul West, "The Sea-Rabbit" by Wendy Walker "Lost in the Funhouse" by John Barth, anything by Borges, "Brillig" by Rikki Ducornet, "Another Pioneer" by DFW, etc. etc.
My favourite short story is probably "Ee: A case story" from Deborah Levy's collection "Ophelia and the Great Idea". The story is only 4 pages or so. Don't know if it ever appeared elsewhere.I also like virtually all short stories by Lorrie Moore, and I believe she will appeal to fans of Alice Munro.
Wow, I didn’t know I had so many short story lovers on my GR friends list! An embarrassment of riches! I might have to have a survey and have people pick among the top three- will be hard to pick! Thanks!! 🙏 has
Edith Wharton's "Xingu" is perfect for a short story book club.
'I Bought a Little City' by Donald Barthelme (discussed yesterday with my students)
Flanney O'Connor is my absolute favorite short story writer.
Thanks again all! A lot of the ppl in this group are English teachers so it’s great to have a variety of selections in case they’ve read it. Or just for my own reading list! Sounds like a lot of great reading ahead of me!
1. Anything by Chekhov 2. Cathedral by Raymond Carver 3. A&P by John Updike 4. The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
Some classics: A Rose for Emily, The Dead, The Scarlet Ibis. Some contemporary: The Interpreter of Maladies, The Midnight Zone, Vampires in the Lemon Grove.
In newer stuff, "Variations on a Theme from Turandot" by Ada Hoffman in Strange Horizons, "STET" by Sarah Gailey in Fireside, "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" by Nibedita Sen, "These Are the Attributes by Which You Will Know God" by RB Lemberg, and "Advice for Your First Time at the Faerie Market" by Nibedita Sen are all beautiful, evocative, smart, and free online
A few personal favorites (though it seems you already have many fine suggestions):"Nothing Missing But the Samovar" from Penelope Lively's Pack of Cards and Other Stories
The Appropriation of Cultures" from Percival Everett's
Damned if I Do
"The Bottle Queen" from W.P. Kinsella's The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Stories
Best of luck with whatever you read.
Thanks much! I still haven’t decided so I’ll see if I can find these- for myself if nothing else.
The collection of 3 short stories : 'The Sacrifice' by Indrajit Garai
