Short Stories on The Point with Mindy Todd
I had such a fun time talking about short stories on The Point this morning with Mindy Todd and Vicky Titcomb of Titcomb’s Books, and many thanks to all of the listener suggestions! We did not have time to get to all of the books we had brought, so you have some bonus titles on our list today. And if you want to listen to short stories, don’t miss the wonderful weekly public radio broadcast SELECTED SHORTS, where great actors read great fiction in front of a live audience. You can listen on WCAI on Saturday nights at 9:00 PM or online or on CD.
Vicky shared a great quote on short stories with us today:
“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
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Vicky’s Picks
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
Calypso by David Sedaris
Cowboys are My Weakness by Pam Houston
Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison
Not Enough Time For:
Florida by Lauren Groff
Fox 8 by George Saunders
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great short Fiction
Orange World by Karen Russell
Jill’s Picks
The Best American Short Stories 2018 edited by Roxane Gay
You Know You want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian
One Dozen and One Short Stories by Gladys Taber
Peter Taylor: Complete Stories by Peter Taylor, Ann Beattie, editor
Varieties of Disturbance: stories by Lydia Davis
The Art of the Short Story by Dana Gioia and R. S. Gwynn
Short Story Index, which covers 1950 to the present!
Not Enough Time For:
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
Archangel by Andrea Barrett
Get In Trouble: stories by Kelly Link
The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
Ghost Stories: classic tales of horror and suspense edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger
The O. Henry Prize Stories: the best short stories of the year, 2018
Listener Picks
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (particularly “The Tiger’s Bride”
Lives of the Poets: six stories and a novella by E. L. Doctorow
Runaway: stories by Alice Munro
Fourteen Spoons Eight Stories by Syrel Dawson
The Anarchists’ Convention by John Sayles
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger (Particularly “The Laughing Man”)
Selected Stories by William Trevor
Uncommon Type: some stories by Tom Hanks
There’s Something I Want You To Do: stories by Charles Baxter
Complete Stories, 1864 – 1874 by Henry James
Just had a listener stop by the reference desk, and he recommends “Eisenheim the Illusionist” by Steven Millhauser from his book We Others: New and Selected Stories