Here is a list of the books I am planning on using to start this project. I'm sure I will add some as I go and would love for further suggestions.
Yukio Mishima:Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
Raymond Carver: What we talk about when we talk about love
Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories
Alice Monro: Selected Stories
Jorge Borges: Labyrinths and other stories
Alice Walker: In Love and Trouble
O’Henry: 100 Selected Stories
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche- The Thing Around Your Neck
H.P. Lovecraft: Complete Collection
T.C.Boyle: Stories
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Phil Klay: Redeployment
Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies
Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Jean Stafford: The Collected Stories
George Sanders: Tenth of December
Molly Antopol: The UnAmericans
Junot Diaz: Drown
Willam Gibson: Burning Chrome
Mark Helprin: Ellis Island
Anthologies:
Dangerous Visions
Best American Short Stories
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The idea....
I have decided to follow a friend on a journey....
That journey is to read one short story each day for an entire year.
When I first heard about the project, I figured there is no way I could do this. I liked the idea but I just don't read very quickly. But the more I thought about it, I easily spend a half hour on the internet each day that I would not mind cutting out of my life. And this seems like a great excuse to do so.
Why short stories? First, I have for the most part avoided them in my reading. Even authors I really enjoy, I tend to skip their short story collections. Secondly, I am hoping it will broaden the scope of my readying.
I have a stack of books ready to go. This list is partly gathered from my friends list, partly from internet research and partly from friends suggestions. (Let me know if there is something I should add to the list.)
I will be posting what story I read each day here as well as a quick 1-10 rating on how much I liked it. (Yes this is extremely subjective.) I hope to once a week post a little more on my favorite story of that week but that might not happen. I want this to be a reading project and not a writing project.
That journey is to read one short story each day for an entire year.
When I first heard about the project, I figured there is no way I could do this. I liked the idea but I just don't read very quickly. But the more I thought about it, I easily spend a half hour on the internet each day that I would not mind cutting out of my life. And this seems like a great excuse to do so.
Why short stories? First, I have for the most part avoided them in my reading. Even authors I really enjoy, I tend to skip their short story collections. Secondly, I am hoping it will broaden the scope of my readying.
I have a stack of books ready to go. This list is partly gathered from my friends list, partly from internet research and partly from friends suggestions. (Let me know if there is something I should add to the list.)
I will be posting what story I read each day here as well as a quick 1-10 rating on how much I liked it. (Yes this is extremely subjective.) I hope to once a week post a little more on my favorite story of that week but that might not happen. I want this to be a reading project and not a writing project.
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