Short Sories

[Anonymous No.17902604]

Looking for a great short story collection. Raymond Carver is my favorite, but I wanna try something else
Im thinking Cheever, or Baldwin because Sonny's Blues is so good. le Fanu maybe?
Any recs?

[Anonymous No.17902620]

DFW , maybe?

[Anonymous No.17903212]

>>17902604
Breece D’j Pancake

[Anonymous No.17903265]

>>17902604
Ernest Hemingway's short stories are pound-for-pound better than his novels. Flannery O'Connor's short stories are very good too. William Faulkner's short stories are great if you want to get a sense of his style without the full-blown autism of his novels. Jorge Luis Borges is most well known for his short story collections (mainly Ficcones), but Penguin has a nice edition that has all of his short stories in one volume

[Anonymous No.17903322]

>>17902604
Pastoralia by George Saunders was surprisingly really good. Can't go wrong with Chekhov

[Anonymous No.17903336]

Roald Dahl

[Anonymous No.17903420]

if you like carver you are obligated to read gordon lish (im not saying youll like him, only the most patient can handle his autism) he has edited carver and basically made his style into what it is (you can look up the unedited versions, theyre very amateurish) carver owes what he is to lish. but his own stuff is very niche and stupid (still my fav writer) and a bit harder to find but if youre interested in the limits of language and stupidity try mourner at the door or his collected fictions.

but if you want to read a straight up great short story collection, just go with nine stories. sallinger has influenced both carver and lish and nine stories works very well as a cohesive work too.

>>17903265
not the biggest fan of hemingway but seconding that his stories are better and if you like carver you might like him. borges is great too

[Anonymous No.17903528]

>>17902604