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Ya-ta Boy
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:47 am Post subject: Who do you like for short stories? |
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I'm usually a novel person, but in the last couple of years I've gotten into short stories. I think Thomas Hardy is terrific. Also O. Henry of course, Jack London, Maugham (can't be beat), Kipling, Twain, Ambrose Bierce and S. V. Benet. I've got a Kate Chopin and a couple were OK. Jhumpa Lahiri is fabulous. I like Jin Ha a lot. (He's Chinese but writes in English.) I bought a collection of Hemingway but just can't get into his stories. I'll try again later. I have two collections of Chekhov and read two stories. It's going to be a struggle to try him again.
Any recommendations? |
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the_beaver
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indytrucks
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jayjayjay
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:03 am Post subject: Re: Who do you like for short stories? |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
I'm usually a novel person, but in the last couple of years I've gotten into short stories. I think Thomas Hardy is terrific. Also O. Henry of course, Jack London, Maugham (can't be beat), Kipling, Twain, Ambrose Bierce and S. V. Benet. I've got a Kate Chopin and a couple were OK. Jhumpa Lahiri is fabulous. I like Jin Ha a lot. (He's Chinese but writes in English.) I bought a collection of Hemingway but just can't get into his stories. I'll try again later. I have two collections of Chekhov and read two stories. It's going to be a struggle to try him again.
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The short story is a most excellent genre. I could recommend dozens of writers, but, to keep it simple I'll list the first one to come to mind: Raymond Carver, a minimalist, who has published many excellent short stories. Also, just in case you've never read Salinger, Nine Stories is an excellent read--a compilation of, yep, you guessed it--nine stories. My favorite of the nine is "Teddy." |
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OiGirl
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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Alice Munro.
I dont know another writer that can bring some ordinary character to life so convincingly in 20 or 30 pages that you feel like you know them in person.
I'm reading Runaway these days, her latest collection, & she just keeps getting better.
Her name always comes up in the run-up to the Nobel prize. Maybe this year. |
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jayjayjay
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| schwa wrote: |
Alice Munro.
I dont know another writer that can bring some ordinary character to life so convincingly in 20 or 30 pages that you feel like you know them in person.
I'm reading Runaway these days, her latest collection, & she just keeps getting better.
Her name always comes up in the run-up to the Nobel prize. Maybe this year. |
I'll second that choice....excellent indeed. |
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Demonicat
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
for essays...David Sedaris!!! |
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Nowhere Man
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HapKi
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Raymond Carver
Poe
Stephen King"s Different Seasons and Skeleton Crew
Charles Bukowski |
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jayjayjay
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:35 am Post subject: Raymond Carver |
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| A lot of Carver fans in here. You may know there was a film made in 1993 (after Carver's untimely death) directed by Robert Altman--Short Cuts. It is a brilliantly done collage film intertwining several of Carver's stories into one tight film. A must see. |
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Pangit
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| Jorge Luis Borges. |
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Hans Blix
Joined: 31 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:37 am Post subject: Re: Who do you like for short stories? |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
I have two collections of Chekhov and read two stories. It's going to be a struggle to try him again.
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what chekhov stories were they? he'd be in my all time top 5 writers - as a critic has said, he's one of the least sentimental writers you can read. probably not the sort of writer that would appeal to an o henry fan, however.
some of john updike's early autobiographical stories are great, particularly 'the happiest i've been'.
nabokov is also a master, maybe 'torpid smoke' is somewhere near his peak.
de maupassant, who's highly regarded by some, is shite. |
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Paji eh Wong
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Alice Munro.
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She has (had?) a kick ass book store in Victoria, too. |
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livinginkorea
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