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Do you have a thing for short story collections?

That underrated literary form is one of my favorites and I was wondering if you would like to share authors’ recommendations with me. Help me discover some great stories please! :-)

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (33 minutes after post)

mm.

sure.
kipling is always good for an offbeat story.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (55 minutes after post)

I’ve always wanted to read more short story collections. I lost grip on keeping up with my reading a long time ago so I’ve been starting afresh again recently. I really liked some of the short stories in Saul Bellow’s ‘Collected Stories’, though. Dave Eggers ‘How We Are Hungry’ is probably as great as his usual writing too :)

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (1 hour, 5 minutes after post)

Thanks for mentioning those Seven Spaces! never heard of them (what an ignorant…) so I am going to check them out. I would recommend you ‘Poachers’ by Tom Franklin, ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri and ‘Glasgow Kiss: an anthology of new writing from Glasgow’.
Some beautiful and great stories in all of them.
Enjoy the reading! :)

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (1 hour, 7 minutes after post)

Oh yes Kipling! You are absolutely right. I need to rediscover him.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (1 hour, 9 minutes after post)

Thank you so much for the recommendations!

I hit a point where I started to realise I’d missed out on so much classic literature that I should really try and get around to fixing it before my brain completely deteriorated. So I’m pretty much in the dark about a lot of literature too. I should definitely get around to reading Kipling again though :)

Cheers!

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