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Ten stories I love:

The Piazza, Melville
The Open Boat, Stephen Crane
Investigations of a Dog, Kafka
A Fragment of Stained Glass, Lawrence
The Snowstorm, Tolstoy
Fairy Tale, Goethe
The Sect of the Phoenix, Borges
The Conversion of the Jews, Philip Roth
The Burning, Eudora Welty
Revelation, Flannery O'Connor

Ten more writers, ten more stories I love....

Date: 2005-01-29 02:58 pm (UTC)
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A boring story, Chekhov
First love, Beckett
In the heart of the heart of the country, Gass
Meneseteung, Munro
Araby, Joyce
Car crash while hitchhiking, Denis Johnson
Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne
My first goose, Babel
The jolly corner, James
The image, Singer
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I read First Love today and had the same this-is-intolerable-(two pages pass)-this-is-hilarious alternating reactions I do with its predecessor Murphy, which I've started I don't know how many times. Also very funny was the early play Human Wishes, in Disjecta, that I'd somehow missed. And his Drunken Boat version is very moving, though I'm mulling over the merits of his "my eyes fixed phantasmagoria" for "I've seen that which men just think they've seen".

Araby was dissected into ruin for me by my archetype-happy professor over the summer. Young Goodman Brown I considered for my own list, but the claims of other Hawthorne stories rose up in choir and I fled. If My First Goose is the same as My First Dovecote then I read and admired it, but surely a goose is not a pigeon.

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