Kelly Link's and Jeffery Ford's short story collections are worth checking out, especially if you like speculative fiction.
Kelly Link's and Jeffery Ford's short story collections are worth checking out, especially if you like speculative fiction.
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cool. thank you everyone. Anymore suggestion will be great
I recommend the Oxford Book of Short Stories edited by V. S. Pritchett. It will give you a taste of many of the authors already recommended. Once you find what you like, there is typically a collection of short stories by individual authors. Having said that I also recommend Flannery O'Connor and John Cheever in addition to Barthelme and Salinger for a more modern look at the short story.
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Nevermind, I forgot the 1900+ part.
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Oh Rudyard Kipling was a fine and innovative short story writer.
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Yoshihiro Tatsumi - The Push Man and other stories.
Lately, I've been reading Alice Munro. Carried Away is a good collection of her work. And if you're interested in reading 'best' collections, try the annual O'Henry Prize publication.
I'd recommend The Best American Short Stories of the Century (edited by John Updike), too.
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hello. i am looking to read some modern short stories 1900's to present. Any recommendation to authors, collection etc will be much appreciated
Try this one for instance; A Tall Guy with Three Holsters.
Elizabeth Taylor
T C Boyle
Peter Taylor
Raymond Carver
J S Grant
Robert Sheckley
William Trevor
Kipling
Clarice Lispector? Roberto Bolaño?
In support of Clarice Lispector:
http://bombmagazine.org/article/7108...tine-happiness
And:
https://books.google.com.br/books?id...9_CsYQ6AEIMDAC
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..._Other_Stories
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John Collier for funny oddities
Gerald Kersh for even stranger.
John Cheever
I would agree with most of the others. I myself have never taken to the brittle Miss Mansfield but no doubt she was able.
There are numerous anthologies out there. I have somewhere in the outrash here an anthology of sci-fi which was edited by (if I remember rightly) Kingsley Amis and was a very entertaining read
Did you know Eiseabhal that Cheever sometimes composed his stories totally orally and only started to write anything down after he had recited them to himself aloud?
Recommendations of short stories :
Dubliners by James Joyce . Look at Ernest Hemmngways recommended reads .
Father Brown by Gilbert Chesterton
Chekhov which isn't modern but good reads
Collection of short stories by Louis Lamour
Short stories by Ernest Hemmingway ( The Killers).
The Blue Hotel and more by Stephen crane
Jack London- best short stories
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