I know people make fun of Hemingway's prose but once I started reading his shorts I was amazed at how fast he could make you care about a character or even get emotional. Nick asking his dad about suicide, that prizefighter with mental issues, the kid returning from the war that forgot how to love, it feels so real.
Some other recommendations: Chekhov, Faulkner, Welty, O.Henry, Yukio Mishima, and Borges have nice short stories. I also like Ray Bradbury. There's a short story analysis book called "The Short Story and the Reader" by Kane and Peters that is quite nice and selects stories to analyze by different angles.
Ficciones, Borges
A good selection of Chekhov short stories
Tales of the grotesque and the arabesque, Poe
A good selection of Kafka short stories
Three tales, Flaubert
For me, I would say East, West by Salman Rushdie. Some choice cuts from the anthology are "The Prophet's Hair", "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers", & "Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fé, AD 1492)."
"Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fé, AD 1492)" is one I especially enjoyed as I liked his bizarre, dramatized take on historical fiction. Actually, I might write a story inspired by this in the future (of course, not nearly as well written as something Rushdie could produce).
I also enjoyed The Tent by Margaret Atwood though I feel like a IQfyner wouldn't really like that one given its feminist themes.
Sixty Stories - Donald Barthelme
Forty Stories - Donald Barthelme
Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
Airships - Barry Hannah
Lost in the Funhouse - John Barth
The Complete Gary Lutz
I swear this board just doesn’t read enough, like everyone is saying the most obvious shit, and none of it’s even good. Hemingway? Dubliners? Stephen fricking King and Murakami? Just pitiful.
>lambasts IQfy for allegedly not reading enough >recommends Barthelme
What did the pseud mean by this?
Ignore this scum anon.
Sixty Stories - Donald Barthelme
Forty Stories - Donald Barthelme
Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
Airships - Barry Hannah
Lost in the Funhouse - John Barth
The Complete Gary Lutz
I swear this board just doesn’t read enough, like everyone is saying the most obvious shit, and none of it’s even good. Hemingway? Dubliners? Stephen fricking King and Murakami? Just pitiful.
Good selection. Try reading Millhauser if you haven't. He is very good.
Shorts by the following writers:
- Gombrowicz
- Purdy
- Hauser
- Capote
- O’Connor
- Wolfe
>Gombrowicz
His stories are very underwhelming. Might try Hauser.
>Millhauser >Hauser
Look, if you want to have shit taste that's up to you. But don't recommend them to me based off my own good taste. Now, back to r*ddit with you.
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Anonymous
It’s Marianne Hauser, you fricking mongoloid. Try reading more than 5 books in your life.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Read a book you tasteless massive homosexual.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Dude, those are among the most basic short writers out there, consider kysing with 'your good taste.'
Well, not as bad as the Stephen King and Murakami lads, but still pretty cringe.
At least read those two, you mong. You might find that they actually wrote two or three decent stories.
I would agree if there wasn't so much dross in there, writing magazine short stories for a living has it's downsides.
is there anything else good among sf short story collections?
Barthelme stories are notoriously short. They're the perfect length for IQfy since IQfy doesn't actually read books. His fairy-tale retellings are top-notch as well.
ahhh never seen anyone mention him before. I've read a couple of collections by him and he's really great, though I can only really tolerate him in short bursts, to be honest. On a sentence level he is beautiful but his stories come across as nonsense, which I'm not a fan of as it exhausts me if I read too much of it in a day.
>the pugilist at rest - thom jones >the sleep of the righteous - wolfgang hilbig >steps - jerzy kosinksi >cathedral of mist - paul willems >platero and i - juan ramon jimenez
Only a rank sucker will think of taking two peeks at Dave the Dude's doll, because while Dave may stand for the first peek, figuring it is a mistake, it is a sure thing he will get sored up at the second peek, and Dave the Dude is certainly not a man to have sored up at you.
But this Waldo Winchester is one hundred per cent. sucker, which is why he takes quite a number of peeks at Dave's doll. And what is more, she takes quite a number of peeks right back at him. And there you are. When a guy and a doll get to taking peeks back and forth at each other, why, there you are indeed.
This Waldo Winchester is a nice-looking young guy who writes pieces about Broadway for the Morning Item. He writes about the goings-on in night clubs, such as fights, and one thing and another, and also about who is running around with who, including guys and dolls.
Sometimes this is very embarrassing to people who may be married and are running around with people who are not married, but of course Waldo Winchester cannot be expected to ask one and all for their marriage certificates before he writes his pieces for the paper.
Nine stories -Salinger
Full Dark No Stars - Stephen King
Hemingway
I know people make fun of Hemingway's prose but once I started reading his shorts I was amazed at how fast he could make you care about a character or even get emotional. Nick asking his dad about suicide, that prizefighter with mental issues, the kid returning from the war that forgot how to love, it feels so real.
Some other recommendations: Chekhov, Faulkner, Welty, O.Henry, Yukio Mishima, and Borges have nice short stories. I also like Ray Bradbury. There's a short story analysis book called "The Short Story and the Reader" by Kane and Peters that is quite nice and selects stories to analyze by different angles.
β-blocker
Doesn't exist yet. Otherwise, it's Dubliners.
This is a good one.
the stuff she write in college isn't great but everything else is some of the best
Philip K Dick - The Philip K Dick Collection
I would agree if there wasn't so much dross in there, writing magazine short stories for a living has it's downsides.
Angry Candy - Harlan Ellison
Ficciones, Borges
A good selection of Chekhov short stories
Tales of the grotesque and the arabesque, Poe
A good selection of Kafka short stories
Three tales, Flaubert
long, like my schlong
when I see a cute ching chong
Jack London
The Best of Richard Matheson.
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories.
Kolyma Tales
The first 49 stories - Hemingway
After the quake - Murakami
Oblivion - DFW
top 3
Kafka — Collected Stories
George Saunders — Civilwarland in Bas Decline
For me, I would say East, West by Salman Rushdie. Some choice cuts from the anthology are "The Prophet's Hair", "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers", & "Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fé, AD 1492)."
"Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fé, AD 1492)" is one I especially enjoyed as I liked his bizarre, dramatized take on historical fiction. Actually, I might write a story inspired by this in the future (of course, not nearly as well written as something Rushdie could produce).
I also enjoyed The Tent by Margaret Atwood though I feel like a IQfyner wouldn't really like that one given its feminist themes.
Sixty Stories - Donald Barthelme
Forty Stories - Donald Barthelme
Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
Airships - Barry Hannah
Lost in the Funhouse - John Barth
The Complete Gary Lutz
I swear this board just doesn’t read enough, like everyone is saying the most obvious shit, and none of it’s even good. Hemingway? Dubliners? Stephen fricking King and Murakami? Just pitiful.
>everyone is saying the most obvious shit
Yet here you are recommending Lost in the Funhouse
Ignore this scum anon.
Good selection. Try reading Millhauser if you haven't. He is very good.
>Gombrowicz
His stories are very underwhelming. Might try Hauser.
>Millhauser
>Hauser
Look, if you want to have shit taste that's up to you. But don't recommend them to me based off my own good taste. Now, back to r*ddit with you.
It’s Marianne Hauser, you fricking mongoloid. Try reading more than 5 books in your life.
Read a book you tasteless massive homosexual.
Dude, those are among the most basic short writers out there, consider kysing with 'your good taste.'
At least read those two, you mong. You might find that they actually wrote two or three decent stories.
is there anything else good among sf short story collections?
cringe
Well, not as bad as the Stephen King and Murakami lads, but still pretty cringe.
cringe
>lambasts IQfy for allegedly not reading enough
>recommends Barthelme
What did the pseud mean by this?
Barthelme stories are notoriously short. They're the perfect length for IQfy since IQfy doesn't actually read books. His fairy-tale retellings are top-notch as well.
>Gary Lutz
ahhh never seen anyone mention him before. I've read a couple of collections by him and he's really great, though I can only really tolerate him in short bursts, to be honest. On a sentence level he is beautiful but his stories come across as nonsense, which I'm not a fan of as it exhausts me if I read too much of it in a day.
>the pugilist at rest - thom jones
>the sleep of the righteous - wolfgang hilbig
>steps - jerzy kosinksi
>cathedral of mist - paul willems
>platero and i - juan ramon jimenez
The Street of Crocodiles (Polish: Sklepy cynamonowe, lit. "Cinnamon Shops") is a 1934 collection of short stories written by Bruno Schulz.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin Leblanc
The Confessions of Arsene Lupin - Leblanc
Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories - Camilleri
Shorts by the following writers:
- Gombrowicz
- Purdy
- Hauser
- Capote
- O’Connor
- Wolfe
The Decameron
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
Collected Stories by William Trevor
No one mentioned Gogol yet? I love his short stories.
Gogol collected tales it is then
Book of short text-messaging style quips:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4M98NTH
Only a rank sucker will think of taking two peeks at Dave the Dude's doll, because while Dave may stand for the first peek, figuring it is a mistake, it is a sure thing he will get sored up at the second peek, and Dave the Dude is certainly not a man to have sored up at you.
But this Waldo Winchester is one hundred per cent. sucker, which is why he takes quite a number of peeks at Dave's doll. And what is more, she takes quite a number of peeks right back at him. And there you are. When a guy and a doll get to taking peeks back and forth at each other, why, there you are indeed.
This Waldo Winchester is a nice-looking young guy who writes pieces about Broadway for the Morning Item. He writes about the goings-on in night clubs, such as fights, and one thing and another, and also about who is running around with who, including guys and dolls.
Sometimes this is very embarrassing to people who may be married and are running around with people who are not married, but of course Waldo Winchester cannot be expected to ask one and all for their marriage certificates before he writes his pieces for the paper.
— 'ROMANCE IN THE ROARING FORTIES'
I wrote this light novel in like a day, it sucks, I hate it.
Idk shitty YouTubers book but it really tickles my sense of humor.
Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
Several short stories revolving around the discovery and colonization of Mars in the same vein as the colonization of America.
>The Short Story and the Reader
Kosztolanyi
Carver
Kipling and Bradbury