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- The Joy of Funerals by Alix Strauss. This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Joy of Funerals, with a fitting anniversary edition out in October. The collection includes nine stories of women willing to do almost anything to fill their yawning voids of loneliness.
- Naked in the Rideshare by Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold. The two youngest-ever comedy writers for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon put their heads together to co-author Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations.
- Table for Two by Amor Towles. Short on time but long on love for bestselling books like Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow? You’re in luck, because author Amor Towles will come out with this short story collection in April 2024.
- Cravings by Garnett Kilberg Cohen. Garnett Kilberg Cohen opens Cravings with a story called “Hors d’oeuvres” and ends it with “Feast.” Each tale digs into a character’s literal or metaphorical craving.
- Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819) and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1820) I agonized over whether I should pick “Rip Van Winkle” or “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” from Irving’s oeuvre.
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) Poe’s early stream-of-consciousness horror story, unreliable narrator and heart beating under the floorboards and all, is certainly one of the most adapted—and even more often referenced—short stories in popular culture, and which may or may not be the source for all of the hundreds of stories in which a character is tormented by a sound only they can hear.
- Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853) Once, while I was walking in Brooklyn, carrying my Bartleby tote bag, a woman in an SUV pulled over (on Atlantic Avenue, folks) to excitedly wave at me and yell “Melville!
- Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890) I will leave it to Kurt Vonnegut, who famously wrote, “I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read the greatest American short story, which is “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” by Ambrose Bierce.
Apr 5, 2022 · What are the best short stories of all time? How does one measure such a thing? One might look at famous short stories, iconic short stories, but how do we define that?
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