What: Reading short story collections
When: January 1st 2011-December 31st 2011
Level: Read at least fifteen collections of short stories.
Completed so far:
- The Mother Who Stayed by Laura Furman (Review)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (Review)
- A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble (Review)
- Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner (Review)
- Separate Kingdoms by Valerie Laken (Review)
- Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy (Review)
- The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy (Review)
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Tentative list of short story collections I have not yet read:
- Self-Help by Lorrie Moore *
- Like Life by Lorrie Moore *
- Birds of America by Lorrie Moore *
- Break It Down by Lydia Davis *
- Almost No Memory by Lydia Davis *
- Samuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia Davis *
- Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis *
- Half In Love by Maile Meloy *
- Girl Trouble by Holly Goddard Jones *
- Dubliners by James Joyce *
- My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides *
- Progress of Love by Alice Munro *
- The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
- Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris
- Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
- Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
- Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash *
- Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann
- How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me edited by Kate Bernheimer *
- Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk *
- Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
- I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly: And Other Stories by Mary Ladd Gavell *
- The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King *
- The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio
