Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
I’ve always thought that one phase of life I’d not willingly re-visit is junior high—today’s middle school. Plunging into Jason …
Category Archives: Short stories
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter, edited by Jessica Harrison As an antidote to the holiday murder mysteries I’ve …
Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories by Susan Minot
The satisfaction of a short story: a glimpse into a life, a space, a possibility (or lack thereof). A glance, …
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The best book I’ve read in 2019 (so far, anyway). Strout’s stories are about individuals who are old, sick, damaged, …
Rounding out the past year
I closed 2013 by finishing a book that I’ve been picking up and putting down for months, as well as …
Dear Life by Alice Munro
A week after the announcement that Alice Munro had won the Nobel Prize for her beautiful, evocative short stories, I …
Fours books + blizzard = coincidental reading
Thanks to Blizzard Nemo, I’ve had the opportunity to curl up with four books, bouncing back and forth as the …
54 of 55: The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Most of us know Flannery O’Connor from her classic short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (1953), the …
37 of 55:The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
I love how A.S. Byatt writes—and I haven’t read enough of her work, as a glance at her list of …
31 of 55: Saints and Sinners by Edna O’Brien
Saints and Sinners is a collection of Edna O’Brien’s recent short stories. I’ve read two of her novels—Wild Decembers (1999) …
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