That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry is one of my recent favorite short story collections.
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1999 but Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri or The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw.
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Check out White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link. “Prince Hat Underground” is probably my favorite but I loved the collection as a whole. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and while her stories are dark and odd they’re also accessible, beautifully written and at times very funny.
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Lots to choose from, but I think The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change by Virginia Mohlere. It used to be free online but I can’t find it anymore.
Followed by Naomi Kritzer’s short stories. So Much Cooking was surprisingly written well before the pandemic and The Year Without Sunshine is a good story to read about people pulling together to help instead of hate.
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Richard Powers’ “To the Measures Fall.” It was published in the New Yorker, and the people will let you have one free read. It’s about a woman and her lifelong love affair with books and reading, and it spoke to me.
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“Shit Cassandra Saw” by Gwen Kirby. It’s also an eponymous short story collection.
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Fox 8 is a fun read
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Three Belfast collections that are phenomenal – Wendy Erskine “Sweet Home”; Lucy Caldwell “Intimacies”, Lucy Caldwell “Multitudes”. More general Ireland – Louise Kennedy “The End of the world is a cul de sac”. And if you just want a giant book to dip in and out of “The Art of the Glimpse” edited by Sinead Gleeson- 100 Irish writers short stories. Multitudes is probably my favourite of these but think they are all brilliant.
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That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry is one of my recent favorite short story collections.
1999 but Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri or The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw.
Check out White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link. “Prince Hat Underground” is probably my favorite but I loved the collection as a whole. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and while her stories are dark and odd they’re also accessible, beautifully written and at times very funny.
Lots to choose from, but I think The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change by Virginia Mohlere. It used to be free online but I can’t find it anymore.
Followed by Naomi Kritzer’s short stories. So Much Cooking was surprisingly written well before the pandemic and The Year Without Sunshine is a good story to read about people pulling together to help instead of hate.
Richard Powers’ “To the Measures Fall.” It was published in the New Yorker, and the people will let you have one free read. It’s about a woman and her lifelong love affair with books and reading, and it spoke to me.
“Shit Cassandra Saw” by Gwen Kirby. It’s also an eponymous short story collection.
Fox 8 is a fun read
Three Belfast collections that are phenomenal – Wendy Erskine “Sweet Home”; Lucy Caldwell “Intimacies”, Lucy Caldwell “Multitudes”. More general Ireland – Louise Kennedy “The End of the world is a cul de sac”. And if you just want a giant book to dip in and out of “The Art of the Glimpse” edited by Sinead Gleeson- 100 Irish writers short stories. Multitudes is probably my favourite of these but think they are all brilliant.