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Can't Miss Short Story Authors
These authors can always be relied upon to provide compelling short stories. For those times when you need your literary fix in small bits. For more great short stories, see also Shirley Jackson.
- Alison Lurie
- Women and Ghosts � Vivid, spooky tales, each featuring a woman and a ghost. You didn�t see that coming?
- Elizabeth McCracken
- Here�s Your Hat, What's Your Hurry - Witty short stories by a woman with a knack for a turn of phrase.
- Lorrie Moore
- Self-Help � Excellent collection of short stories, heartbreaking and hilarious by turns.
- Like Life � See above.
- Thisbe Nissen
- Out of the Girls Room and Into the Night � Great short stories, each told with a distinct and different voice.
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Heat and Other Stories � Chilling. Disquieting. Not easy going but well worth it.
- Grace Paley
- The Collected Stories - Abrasively funny but still somehow touching.
- Dorothy Parker
- The Portable Dorothy Parker - From reviews to poems to short stories, an excellent and witty collection. May I recommend starting with �The Waltz�?
- Stacey Richter
- My Date With Satan - Fabulous, inventive, winning short stories, with varied, unusual narrators and characters. Wholly charming. The kind of book you want to give to everyone you know. Loved the story of a woman who tries to get a grant to become a crazy cat lady, the story of the guy who hooks up with a Swedish goth band to play heavy metal, and the story of an aged teen idol.
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Updated 11/30/05
Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Email me at schka46[at]hotmail.com.
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