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God tier short fiction?

>Dat fucking ending.

>> No.4710869

OP confirmed for excellent taste
Also, dat dog...

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>>4709784
Did somebody say god tier?

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OP, if you want to talk about endings...

>> No.4710886

>>4709784

Stephen King's short fiction tends to be absolutely solid. Some of his stories are better than his best novels. Examples: The Mist and The Body (AKA Stand By Me).

Rust and Bone, A Mean Utility, On Sleepless Roads by Craig Davidson are great.

TC Boyle has busted out some god-tier short stories, too, but he has written so many that I'm having trouble calling specifics to mind. I remember really liking Tooth and Claw and Chicxulub though.

A&P by John Updike.

Sea Oak by George Saunders. Link here: http://www.barcelonareview.com/20/e_gs.htm

>> No.4710926

A Canticle for Leibowitz.

>> No.4710934

Old Man and the Sea

It's the book I read after reading massive books to "centre" me. It's such a chill book.

>> No.4711032

>>4709784
Italo Calvino - into the war
Hemmingway's short stories
Dostoevsky's shorts
kafka's shorts - metamorphosis, in the penal colony
Checkov's shorts
so many shorts bro

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>> No.4711059

>>4711053
He's a god

>> No.4711072

White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nevsky Prospekt - Nikolai Gogol
The Return of Chorb - Vladimir Nabokov

>> No.4711448

>>4710886
A&P as a great short story??

>> No.4711482

>>4710934
One of the greatest. Metaphorically, it means so much.

>> No.4711486

>>4709784

Come out, Neville!

>> No.4711568

met the last of the mohicans.int the library todAY...ultra |\\\\\bath/////|

>> No.4712216

for some reason all i can think about is that boring movie with will smith

surely its much, much more accomplished than that? it sucks that my palette is soured because of it.

>> No.4712294

Novellas:
Patrick Suskind - The Pigeon
James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity
J.L. Carr - A Month in the Country

Short story collections:
John Cheever - The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
Richard Yates - Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Liars in Love

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>> No.4712416

I don't ever see Raymond carver mentioned...what do you guys think of his stuff?

>> No.4712436

>>4712416
Liked What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral.
Fave stories were Neighbors
They're Not Your Husband
Why Don't You Dance
The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off

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>>4710869
>Also, dat dog...

>> No.4712446

>>4712333

I don't see The Fifth Head of Cerberus on there...

>> No.4712561

>>4712436
I've just started reading his short cuts collextion, so I've only been through 2-3. Liked They're not your husband as well, though. Although, how am I supposed to interpret his endings? Like, after 3 stories I'm still kind of confused at the end of each...am I dumb

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