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I love Nine Stories by JD Salinger. I haven't read it in a while. I've been dying to read Interpreter of Maladies as well as No One Belongs Here More Than You.
I also loved I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
I love Nine Stories by JD Salinger. I haven't read it in a while. I've been dying to read Interpreter of Maladies as well as No One Belongs Here More Than You.
I also loved I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
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Also, if you're into science fiction or fantasy, there are great short story anthologies that come out every year by Gardner R. Dozois that usually have some pretty sweet stuff in them.
And then there's Shirley Jackson who wrote the lottery and some other good short stories as well.
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I read No One Belongs Here More Than You and I was really excited about it when I bought it. I read it and was really disappointed with it. Anyone else read this one?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown is really good, as well.
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I love Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth and Amy Bloom's Come to Me. I'll think of other good volumes I like; I was on a short story collection kick a few months ago.
Jess wrote: "Jamie, I tried No One Belongs Here More Than You and I couldn't get past the first twenty pages. It was terrible, in my opinion!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one!!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one!!
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Raymond Carver is the most perfect short story author in my opinion. I read his collections over and over again. I even read his books which gave advice on how to craft a short story. He is genius with constructing a sentence, and with crafting stories out of mundane observations.
Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is the perfect short story collection, as he weaves all the stories together to depict life in a small town.
Jay McInerney released a collection of stories spanning 20+ years entitled How It Ended. Good for fans of Gossip Girl. He was actually a student of Raymond Carver's.
I also love J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shirley Jackson, and Kate Chopin.
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Jhumpa Lahiri is one of my favorite authors. I LOVED Interpreter of Maladies and am now currently reading Unaccustomed Earth: Stories.
I was never really into short stories until I read Lahiri. Now, I love them because they're perfect for my lifestyle at the moment (reading a story during a subway ride).
I definitely recommend anything by Lahiri!
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
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I've read all three, all of them were brilliant.
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I also collect The Best American Short Stories anthologies. I love those things. They always have a great mix of awesome authors I think I have read about twelve of them and own seven. I have only been disappointed by one so far.
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I really love the ones by Kate Chopin! My favorite so far would have to be "A Respectable Woman"