I would (at the risk or promoting a Dzanc title) for sure have Nino Cipri's "Dead Air" from their collection Homesick on my top ten of the 2000's to join that SGJ story.
A huge amount of my short story reading has been coming through the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, because I love to hear the discussion of the story after it's read. They have Gary Shteyngart reading (and discussing) "Omakase" by Weike Wang (recommended above!) and it's so so good.
Takes me back to the surreal yet weirdly halcyon early pandemic days when the great Ben Loory read us his favorite stories every evening on Instagram live. What a gift that was! Still feels a little like a dream. Wild Milk is an all-time great. I was so delighted by the nightmare in Wonderland aspects of it the first time hearing it, gratefully snort laughing all the way, that it took a reread for me to catch the line that forms the human heart of it: I should never have left him. Gah. So good.
Father, Son, Holy Rabbit is SUCH a great story
I haven’t read it! Am excited to!!
I would (at the risk or promoting a Dzanc title) for sure have Nino Cipri's "Dead Air" from their collection Homesick on my top ten of the 2000's to join that SGJ story.
A huge amount of my short story reading has been coming through the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, because I love to hear the discussion of the story after it's read. They have Gary Shteyngart reading (and discussing) "Omakase" by Weike Wang (recommended above!) and it's so so good.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gary-shteyngart-reads-weike-wang/id256945396?i=1000591823238
Thomas McGuane’s “Cowboy,” on my own list last week, I was introduced to years ago by Sam Lipsyte reading it on the NYer pod!
Takes me back to the surreal yet weirdly halcyon early pandemic days when the great Ben Loory read us his favorite stories every evening on Instagram live. What a gift that was! Still feels a little like a dream. Wild Milk is an all-time great. I was so delighted by the nightmare in Wonderland aspects of it the first time hearing it, gratefully snort laughing all the way, that it took a reread for me to catch the line that forms the human heart of it: I should never have left him. Gah. So good.