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[angstyfag No.1822475]

Best short story collections. Go

[Anonymous No.1822480]

don't have a pic of Borges' Labyrinths, but w/e

P.S., fave story OP? mine was probably Esmè

[angstyfag No.1822485]

Esme was great, bannanafish also. But I think Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes has stuck with me the most. I really like the way the story is narrated, and love the title.

[satago110 No.1822499]

Thurber Carnival, or maybe Texts For Nothing, maybe

[Anonymous No.1822505]

>>1822485
Bananafish was also excellent. pretty mouth was my 2nd least favorite, right after teddy

[Anonymous No.1822508]

They are great, though the stories are a bit ruined with the knowledge that they all end in a tweeeeeest

[sandwiches No.1822514]

Borges, Tolstoy, Chekhov.

[Anonymous No.1822536]

One story at night or in the morning per day.

Delicious.

[Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 No.1822662]

Nine Stories
The Complete Robot
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Wilderness Tips

Read those 4 and be very happy.

[Anonymous No.1822666]

pigeon feathers by updike
the night in question by tobias wolff
a bunch of donald barthelme ones i dont' fee\l like listing
pastoralia by george saunders

[Anonymous No.1822678]

self-help and birds of america by lorrie moore
drown by junot diaz

[Anonymous No.1822878]

I think to get into Teddy you've got to like the whole of the Salinger body of work. He's really into eastern spiritualism/buddhism. I always enjoyed the writing but not the philosophy as much. To be fair it's been years since I've looked at this stuff.

[Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 No.1822885]

>>1822662

I am actually going to go pick those up right now.

Any collection of Somerset Maugham short stories.

http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Short-Stories-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140185895

[Anonymous No.1823176]

[Br0 !!6MVXskhR3UN No.1823185]

>>1822678

I love Lorrie Moore.

Also Breaking It Down by Lydia Davis