Fat Books & Thin Women

Story Sundays

Every Sunday I write about short stories I’m liking. If you’re interested in running this feature on your own site (creating a monstrous/awesome bunch of posts about short stories we can read online, reminding ourselves that lots of people love short stories) email story.sundays@gmail.com for details. Here’s the list of stories I’ve posted on since starting Story Sundays in January 2011.

May 20, 2012: Etgar Keret’s “Grab the Cuckoo by the Tail”
March 18, 2012: Salman Rushdie’s “In the South”
March 11, 2012: Jesmyn Ward’s “Cattle Haul”
February 26, 2012: Matt Getty’s “Keeping Susie Whole”
February 12, 2012: Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder”
February 5, 2012: Margaret Atwood’s “Stone Mattress”
January 22, 2012: Daniel Orozco’s “Orientation”
January 15, 2012: Nathan Englander’s “Free Fruit for Young Widows”
December 18, 2011: Touré’s “A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love”
December 4, 2011: Maureen F. McHugh’s “Eight Legged Story”
October 16, 2011: Murray Dunlap’s “White Boy”
October 9, 2011: John Jodzio’s “This Is All the Orientation You Are Gonna Get”
October 2, 2011: Neil Gaiman’s “A Study in Emerald”
September 25, 2011: Kalpana Narayanan’s “Aviator on the Prowl”
September 18, 2011: Chelsea Laine Wells’s “Fire”
September 11, 2011: George Saunders’s “Home”
September 4, 2011: Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”
August 28, 2011: Amy Hempel’s “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried”
August 21, 2011: Kelly Link’s “Swans”
August 14, 2011: Dennis Lehane’s “Until Gwen”
August 7, 2011: David Foster Wallace’s “Backbone”
July 31, 2011: Neil Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, Apples”
June 26, 2011: Steven Millhauser’s “Getting Closer”
June 19, 2011: Jennifer Egan’s “Goodbye, My Love”
June 12, 2011: Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
June 5, 2011: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
May 29, 2011: Cat Rambo’s “Magnificent Pigs”
May 22, 2011: Robert Coover’s “Going for a Beer”
May 15, 2011: Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
May 8, 2011: Nathaniel Bellows’s “Nan”
April 24, 2011: Kate Chopin – “Ma’ame Pelagie”
April 17, 2011: Stephen King – “Herman Wouk is Still Alive”
April 10, 2011: Dave Eggers – “After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned”
April 3, 2011: Kathy Anderson – “You are the Bad Smell”
March 27, 2011: Raymond Carver – “Beginners”
March 20, 2011: Roddy Doyle – “Ash”
March 13, 2011: Aryn Kyle – “Foaling Season”
March 6, 2011: Kelly Link – “The Faery Handbag”
February 27, 2011: Shirley Jackson – “The Lottery”
February 20, 2011: Carol Emshwiller – “Mrs. Jones”
February 13, 2011: Alison Smith – “The Specialist”
February 6, 2011: Flannery O’Connor – “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
January 30, 2011: Robert Olen Butler – “The Ironworker’s Hayride”
January 23, 2011: Julie Orringer – “Care”
January 16, 2011: E.M. Forster – “The Machine Stops”
January 9, 2011: Vladimir Nabokov – “Natasha”
January 2, 2011: Kelly Link – “The Wrong Grave”

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