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My Favorite:
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Post your favorites, I need recommendations

>> No.8197376
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one I just picked up

>> No.8197396

Any other takers?

>> No.8197435

fuck this board then

>> No.8197447

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Tenth Of December

are two of my fav. collections

>> No.8197455

>>8197351
>>8197447
Seconding What We Talk About, as well as Cathedral by Carver
Tenth of December was very hit or miss in my opinion

>> No.8197476

>>8197351
Flannery O'Connor and Jorge Luis Borges
>those are authors not books
fight me

>> No.8197503

First Love and Other Sorrows by Harold Brodkey

The Collected Stories of Breece DJ Pancake

In Our Time Hemmingway

>> No.8197517

>>8197351
gogol's shorts, pushkin, borges, welcome to the monkey house by vonnegut... pleb shit really.

>> No.8197528

James Salter and Irwin Shaw were underrated short story writers, probably better known for their novels. I think Salter's collection was called Dusk and other stories and Shaw's was Sailor off the Bremen

>> No.8197549

>>8197447
>>8197455
>>8197476
>>8197503
>>8197517
>>8197528
Thank you all

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I've gotten on a NYRB Classics kick this summer and this one has stood out. Super cozy read and I highly recommend reading this season.

I suppose it's technically vignettes with the same characters rather than separate, independent stories in a collection but I think it still fits

>> No.8197590

>>8197351
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

>> No.8197606

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami is probably his most consistent work to date.

>> No.8197681

Maybe this is just assumed here, but don't forget Dubliners of course

>> No.8197714

>>8197351
The Insanity Defense by Woody Allen.

>> No.8197854

>>8197351
Adam Johnson's Fortune Smiles is bretty gud
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant is also great.

>> No.8197877

>>8197590
This, as well as Eyes.

>> No.8197914

Controlled Burn by Scott Wolven

>> No.8198299

Eleven Kinds of Lonelines
Liars in Love
Dubliners

>> No.8198309

Thirding basically any Raymond Carver collection but in particular Where I'm Calling From. Also Ficciones by Borges and Dubliners.

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The Complete Works of HP Lovecraft

>> No.8198338

The Complete Stories of Ernest Hemingway

I much prefer Hemingway's short stories to his novels

>> No.8198345

Airships by Barry "Da Gawd" Hannah

>> No.8198372

Kipling, I'm not sure anyone matches him in writing about indians, hindus, buddhists, sikhs, and colonial brits in India.

Even Indians can't surpass kipling writing about their own people,kipling was that special kind of person born on both sides and able to appreciate and criticize both sides equally, maybe biased at times, but can you blame him, England brought modern civilization and technology and education to India among other things.

I envy him deeply and wish I could live in his time. His short stories are not to be overlooked.

>> No.8198377

Confederates in the Attic

>> No.8198388

Street of Crocodiles / Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Kafka Complete Short Stories
Kornél Esti by Dezső Kosztolányi
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Locos by Felipe Alfau
Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

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Lu Xun's stories

>> No.8198483

Last Evenings on Earth by Bolaño.
Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs by Vollmann.
Oblivion by David Foster Wallace.

>> No.8198580

Street of Crocodiles

The Oranging of America

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

The Things They Carried (I'm counting it)

>> No.8198654

>>8198388
The first four you posted are my favourites too, so I'll take the others as strong recommendations.

>> No.8198676

katherine mansfield - the garden party
italo calvino - mr palomar
david foster wallace - brief interviews with hideous men
richard yates - eleven kinds of loneliness
elmore leonard - the complete western stories
william h. gass - in the heart of the heart of the country
any collection of gogol, chekhov, lovecraft, kafka