Short Story Collections

Thomas Hardy Wessex Tales
Anything at all by Chekhov

True I suppose, it’s from the 50s. Point aside, Updike is up there with Salinger as a short fiction writer, you can’t go wrong with him

literally google "notable short story collections" or something, you retard

I've been going through a collection of Jack London's short stories on the bus to and from work

A Piece of Steak is my favorite so far

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I’ve only read Invisible Cities. How do the other collections compare to it?

Borges

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Everything by W. Somerset Maugham, it will change your life

Saki, Liam O'Flaherty, George Moore's Untilled Field, Roald Dahl (unironically); Bradbury (inc. and esp. the non-sci-fi stuff); James Thurber...
More Yea Forums: Villiers de l"isle-Adam, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Bloy......
Knock yourself out.

I like Ballard, so I liked these. You might also, if you are so inclined.

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i always have a short story compilation on the go as well as my main book
my favourites include

richard yates - eleven kinds of loneliness
breece d'j pancake - complete stories
alice munro - dear life
anais nin - little birds
hp lovecraft - stuff
raymond carver - anything
anton chekhov - anything
elmore leonard - western short stories

that reminds me, Anais Nin's Under a Glass Jar is bloody brilliant.

clarice lispector. i can't remember what the actual collection is called, just something like 'comprehensive stories' so it shouldn't be hard to find.

just finished lorrie moore's 'self-help' and really loved it. but i assume i am probably closer to the intended audience than most of this board.

Been reading Cervantes' 12 Exemplary Novels,* they're pretty comfy.

*Back in his day, a "Novel" (novela) could be as short as 30 pages. The whole collection, including the translator's intro and postscript, is about 400 pages.

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Love me some Breece. Also, try collections of Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

Flaubert: Three Tales

What about the numerous collections of tales, like the Decameron, Canterbury tales, Heptameron? Do these tales read like short stories?

Tell me about these, what does she write about?

In Fair Play it’s episodic stories about two women. Nothing even homosexual in them.

The rest are short topics of various kinds. Gentle, sometimes rattling, amusing, and in the case of the Woman Who Barrowed Memories, disturbing.

I also have Letters from Klara. She’s just got a nice cozy style.

Complete Short Fiction, Oscar Wilde

I see, i'm going to get one, what one best represents her?

I started with Fair Play. The Summer Book comes highly recommended, but if you’d like to have a variety of characters and types of stories go with the shorts.

Chekhov
Maupassant
Faulkner
Alice Munro
The Best American Short Stories series. Murrica, fuck yeah.

Go Down, Moses. It's technically a collection, although narrative the connections between the stories are so strong that Faulkner considered it a novel. Either way, each story stands on its own merit. 'Was' is hilarious, and 'The Bear' is an all time classic. The latter is denser than most novels.

*the narrative

Lives of Girls and Women. I say this unironically.

GEORGE SAUNDERS

just read Nine Stories, top tier Salinger

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is one of favorites. Also The Illustrated Man.

>Ronald Dahl
>"There's a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity ... I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."

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What's Updike?

amazon.com/Newtown-Short-Stories-Novel-Nabe-ebook/dp/B07NZ8PCP1/

Seconding Chekov, Maupassant, Calvino, Kawabatta, Cortazar, Borges, Flaubert , Saki, and London. Wilde has nice tales also.

Adding Junichiro Tanizaki's Rashomon (and others stories), any collection by Stefan Zweig, the inevitable Borges, and Baudelaire's Little Poems in Prose which can be read as shorts stories.

>Junichiro Tanizaki's Rashomon
Do you mean Ryunosuke Akutagawa?

Yeah I don't know why I confused them lol.

>inb4 you can't tell jap names for one another

No that was a genuine mistake on my part.

east bay niggas be like

The Street of Crocodiles

Overcoat and Nose by Gogol

Funny surrealist satire

His short story collection is also impeccable.

I'm a queer, not a lesbian. What's up with you?

Which translation?

Cold equations

>C
Cortazar is shit (Cortázar es excremento.)

ETA Hoffmann's Tales