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Post some good short story anthologies.

>> No.16421936

PKDs Electric Dreams is all I have to offer. Very bittersweet. Sometimes more the one, sometimes more the other. Worth a read

>> No.16421957

>>16421781
Any of Fitzgerald’s
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love by Richard Yates
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (its his best book desu)

>> No.16422118

>>16421781
Hemingway's Collected Stories.

Really good stuff.

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>>16421781
An obvious choice, but it's absolutely essential.

>> No.16422149

The Stories of John Cheever
Kafka Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor Complete Stories
Clarice Lispector Complete Stories
Borges Collected Fictions
Oblivion by DFW

And seconding these
>>16421957
>>16422118

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A good example of Postmodern style, excesses, and shortcomings

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Another good reference, but might be unnessceary depending on how well read you are.

>> No.16422172

>>16421781
Reading from my complete sherlock holmes is very comfy at night although it does contain novels as well, my fav short storys from it are the adventure of the engineers thumb and there is one about a mutiny on a ship but i cant remember the name rn