since the response was so very fast and generous with the last one- anybody has any good short stories collections to recommend? bit weird is fine with me, diverse would be fantastic
Ooh, I’m less good with short stories, but Ted Chiang has a couple good SF ones from what I hear, Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad was absolutely delightful, and Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties has gotten some good acclaim. I know Haruki Murakami has short story collections too, but I don’t know how their quality compares to his novels.
Oh, and Roxane Gay has short stories as well, I think?
Oh, I’ve been reading a lot of short story collections lately and have in the past as well.
Some that stick out: Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva, Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung, Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez, Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History edited by Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older (small print run, pretty hard to find), The Unreal and the Real: Outer Space and Inner Lands by Ursula K Le Guin, The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote, Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, and the classic The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (arguably not a short story collection but in that realm with its vignette structure.) There’s many others I have read but didn’t like at all so can’t recommend, many individual short stories, and quite a few collections I plan to read but haven’t yet so can’t recommend.
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