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Sup /lit/

I need some good short story collections

But no O'Connor, Jackson, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Salinger, Murakami, Oates, Ozick, South Americans, or Russians because I've already either read everything or at least all of the good ones

>> No.548926

Carson McCullers

Thank me later :)

>> No.548939

Hemingway - Men Without Women
Joyce - Dubliners

>> No.548948

>>548939

Already read those

>> No.548962

You read In Our Time? It's my favorite Hemingway book. Other than that, I'd recommend Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson. If you're down with postmodern shit, Barthelme's collections are good, as is Lost in the Funhouse, by John Barth.

>> No.548968

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

>> No.548976

>>548968

>no South Americans

>> No.548980

I enjoyed Bad Haircut by Tom Perrotta. Nothing fancy but it's a solid read.

>> No.548985

Globalhead
A Good Old Fashioned Future

both by Bruce Sterling

>> No.548988

Just pick something that you haven't read from this list.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/10303/ref=pd_ts_b_nav

>> No.548993

The Guest by Camus.
And all of the stories in Dark Water by Koji Suzuki.

>> No.548991

Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers

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548990

If your into horror/fantasy/weird tales, H.P Lovecraft.

>> No.549019

david sedaris has some really funny stuff

>> No.549265

Harlan Ellison.

Alone Against Tomorrow.

or

DeathBird and other stories.

>> No.549292

Saki (H.H. Munro). A little mannered, as he wrote in the 1890s-1910s, but some enjoyable stuff.

>> No.549317

You need to check yourself out some William Trevor. Irish short story writer but hardly ever writes about being Irish, and infact writes very well about England.

Some of the best short stories I've ever read. Oh, and you'll be able to appreciate all his references to Joyce, too.

>> No.549337

>>548968
this

>> No.549339

http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Fantasy-Science-Fiction/dp/1892391910/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=book
s&qid=1271131561&sr=8-15

Not all of them are good, but its worth it for the likes of The Deathbird, Other People, Mother Grasshoper, and some others.

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549545

Michael Swanwick anthologies for the absolute FUCKWIN - if you can even find them for sale. He is seriously the best short-fiction author currently living.

picture unrelated.

>> No.549567

>>549545
>pic unrelated
As unrelated as it is, would you be so kind as to provide me with the name of the artist of this painting?

>> No.549572

Donald Barthelme. Don't listen to anyone else itt, OP

>> No.549580

You'll probably want to read Herman Melville's short stories if you haven't. Also Faulkner's

>> No.549614

>>549567

dunno

>> No.549626

How has the thread gone so long with no one suggesting Tao Lin????????????

>> No.549630

>>549614
That is so not what I wanted to hear. I'll have to do some digging.

>> No.549637

Philip K. Dick

'nuff said.

>> No.549649

Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House

Junot Diaz's Drown is one of the best things I've ever read

>> No.549659

>>549630
Anon to teh rescue
Follow this link:
http://dialogofashion.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/niponicas/

hope you know how to use tineye

>> No.549657

>>549626
Because you hadn't logged on yet. Get the fuck out, Tao.

>> No.549655

I hope OP is very discerning because a lot of these suggestions just plain suck

>> No.549663

>>549657
Logged onto what? My 4chan Gold Account?

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Burning Chrome

/thread

>> No.549672

John Barth wrote a few short story collections

>> No.549822

Poe. Imp of the perverse, best he's evere written and it's just a couple of pages.

>> No.549832

Maoupassant

His most famous is Gift of the Magi, but most of his stuff is better than that imo.

>> No.549880

George Saunders - In Persuasion Nation
Barry Hannah - Airships
Larry Brown - Facing the Music
Donald Barthelme - Forty Stories
Julie Orringer - How to Breathe Underwater

>> No.549893

Mark Richard - The Ice at the Bottom of the World
Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son

>> No.549941

The Early Short Stories of John Updike.