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#2026 Short Stories

2026: The New Yorker FIction – TBR

  1. Prophecy – Kanak Kapur -READ
  2. A Visit From the Chief – Samanta Schweblin
  3. Chuka – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  4. Keuka  Lake – Joseph O’ Neill
  5. Five Bridges – Colm Tóibín
  6. Techniques and Idiosyncrasies – Yiyun Li
  7. The Frenzy – J.C Oates
  8. Hatagaya Lore – Bryan Washington
  9. Elias – Jon Fosse
  10. The Queen of Bad Influences – J. Shepherd
  11. Any Human Heart – YiYun Li
  12. The Silence – Zadie Smith
  13. The Bridge Stood Fast – Anne Enright
  14. An Unashamed Proposal – Kiran Desai
  15. The Corn Woman, Her Husband, and Their Child – Annie Proulx
  16. Voyagers! – Bryan Washington

2025:

  1. Friend of My Youth (10 stories)  – A. Munro  – REVIEW
  2. Contes de la Bécasse  (17 stories) – Guy de Maupassant – REVIEW
  3. Guilt- F. von Schirach  (12 stories) – REVIEW
  4. Friend of My Youth (10 short stories)  – A. Munro  – REVIEW
  5. Leopold’s Way:  19 Detective Stories – Edward D. Hoch – REVIEW

2024: 

  1. Wenlock Edge – Alice Munro (Wow)   REVIEW
  2. Free Radicals – A. Munro  REVIEW  (Wow) 
  3. The Persistance of Desire – John Updike  READ  (No) – REVIEW
  4. Too Much Happiness (Nobel Prize 2013) – Alice Munro – REVIEW
  5. Deep Holes – A. Munro – REVIEW
  6. Roman Stories – J. Lahiri (boring) – REVIEW
  7. The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926) – (8 excellent stories) – G.K. Chesterton – REVIEW
  8. Home for Christmas – Carson McCullers  – READ
  9. Gift of the Magi – O. Henry – READ
  10. A Letter from Santa Claus – Mark Twain – READ
  11. A Christmas Memory – T. Capote (excellent!!) – READ

#TheNewYorkerFiction 

  1. I love this magazine …but never seem to read
  2. …the wonderful fiction it offers!
  3. What is the goal of the challenge?
  4. Read  MORE  short stories in 2024.
  5. @NYerFiction

2024:  Stories from The New Yorker 2024

  1. Consolation – André Alexis (Canada)  (Excellent)  20.05.2024
  2. We’re Not So Different You and I – Simon Rich (USA) (waste of time...) 06.05.2024
  3. Pulse – Cynan Jones (Wales) – (... worth reading) 29.04.0224
  4. The Beach House – Joy Williams (waste of time...) 08.01.2024
  5. Bozo –  S. Thannavongsa (Canada)  – (...nothing special) 08.04.2024
  6. Finistère – Kevin Barry – (Excellent)  15.04.2024
  7. Allah Have Mercy – M. N. Ali (Ghana) – (…weak ending) 01.04.2024
  8. Thataway – Thomas McCuane – (Excellent) 27.05.2024
  9. Late Love – Joyce Carol Oates – (…weak ending) 22.04.2024
  10. Neighbors   – Zach Williams – (Good) 25.03.2024
  11. Chicago on the Seine  – Camille Bordas  (Good) 17.06.2024
  12. Chance the Cat – David Means – 15.01.2024
  13. Poor Houdini – Ann Carson – 22 01.2024
  14. Life With Spider – Patrick Langley – 05.02.2024
  15. That Girl – Addie Citchens – 05.02.2024
  16. On the Night of the Khatma – Jamil Jan Kochai – 26.02.2024
  17. The Time Being – Joseph O’Neill – 11.03.2024
  18. The Spit of Him – Thomas Korsgaard – 26.02.2024
  19. Hostel – Fiona McFarlane – 04.03.2024
  20. The Buggy – Roddy Doyle – 24.06.2024
  21. Beyond Imagining – Lore Segal – 10.06.2024
  22. Woman, Frog and Devil – Olga Tokarczuk – 03.06.2024
  23. Vincent’s Party – Tessa Hadley – 01.07.2024

1953:

  1. Evan – Sylvia Townsend Warner – (excellent!) 14.03.1953

2008:

  1. Deep-Holes – Alice Munro  30.06.2008 – REVIEW
  2. Free Radicals – Alice Munro 11.02.2008   REVIEW  (…sudden twist, “I did not see that coming!”)
  3.  

2005:

  1. Wenlock Edge – Alice Munro 27.11.2005  REVIEW

2018:

  1. Acceptance Journey – Mary Gaitskill – (pointless story)
  2. The Frog King – Garth Greenwell  (…story filled with  “I love you’s”)
  3. Poor Girl – Ludmilla Petrushevskaya – (…weak ending)
  4. No More Than Ever – Zadie Smith – (…just awful)
  5. Whoever is there, come on through – Colin Barett
  6. Foreign Returned – Sadia Shepard
  7. Texas – David Gates
  8. Writing Teacher – John E. Wideman
  9. The Boundary – J. Lahiri
  10. Bronze – Jeffrey Eugenides
  11. Stansville – Rachel Kushner
  12. Mrs. Crasthorpe – Willliam Trevor
  13. Seeing Ershadi – Nicole Kraus
  14. The Poltroon Husband – Joseph O’ Neill
  15. No More Maybe – Gish Jen
  16. The State – Tommy Orange
  17. The Intermediate Class – Sam Allingham
  18. The State of Nature – Camille Bordas
  19. How Did We Come to Know You – Keith Gessen
  20. A Flawless Silence – Yiyun Li
  21. Treatments – Robert Coover
  22. The Boarder – Isaac Bashevis Singer
  23. Without Inspection – Edwidge Danticat
  24. The Long Black Line – John L’Heureux
  25. Stay Down and Take It – Ben Marcus
  26. Silver Tiger – Lu Wang
  27. Orange World – Karen Russel
  28. Fungus – David Gilbert
  29. Omakase – Weike Wang
  30. The Luck of Kotura – Gary Shteyngart
  31. The First World – Joseph O’ Neill
  32. Under the Wave – Lauren Groff
  33. The Dog – J.M. Coetzee (Dec 2017)
  34. I Walk Between the Raindrops – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  35. Displaced – Richard Ford
  36. A Refugee Crisis – Callan Wink
  37. Ways and Means – Sana Krasikov
  38. The Wind Cave – Haruki Murakami
  39. Cecilia Awakened – Tessa Hadley
  40. When We Were Happy We Had Other Names – Yiyun Li
  41. The Rise and Rise of Annie Clark – John L’Heureux
  42. The Coast of Leitrim – Kevin Barry
  43. Flaubert Again – Anne Carson
  44. Waugh – Bryan Washington
  45. Backpack – Tom Earley
  46. Cattle Praise Song – S. Mukasonga
  47. Show Recent Some Love – Sam Lipsyte
  48. Snowing in Greenwich Village – John Updike
  49. Children are Bored on Sunday – Jean Stafford
  50. Chaunt – Jay Williams
  51. Time for the Eyes to Adjust – Linn Ullmann
  52. The Lazy River – Zadie Smith (Dec 2017)