Lately, I’ve been reading lots of short stories (after years of mostly reading poetry and non-fiction) and wanted to share a few noteworthy ones.
Each is interesting in its own distinct and distilled way—a striking voice, how time is managed, sheer originality, pitilessly compressed heartbreak.
“Shhhh” by NoViolet Bulawayo
“Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu
“The Mother” by Natalia Ginzburg
“I’m Your Horse in the Night” by Luisa Valenzuela
“The First Day” by Edward P. Jones
“On the Golden Pond” by Tatyana Tolstaya
“The Elephant Vanishes” by Haruki Murakami
“Some Other, Better Otto” by Deborah Eisenberg
Please feel free to share your own recent favorites on this thread.
A toast to the short story!
Abrazos,
Cristina
PS: Do you have a short story that’s ready to go? Copy this link to submit to Asterix’s special fiction issue: https://asterix.submittable.com/submit/55313/the-fiction-issue
A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler. Will You Please Be Quiet Please, Raymond Carver (restored version - pre-Gordon Lish scalpel.
A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler. Will You Please Be Quiet Please, Raymond Carver (restored version - pre-Gordon Lish scalpel.
Love these collections!
The Child Screams and Looks Back at You by Russell Banks. For anyone who's been a parent.
The collection "A Mouthful of Birds" by Samantha Schlebin, frm Argentina, is amazing.
Wonderful!! Another book on order. I wouldn't miss any of your suggestions, querida!
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