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Collections for Short Story Month
So often overlooked, short stories deliver major style in commute-perfect sizes.
Published on August 1, 2022
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Carmen Maria MachadoMachado’s debut is so wonderfully weird. Genre-bending, uncanny, and often very funny, each of these unusual stories has something poignant to say about being a person, and about being an artist.
Baboon
Naja Marie AidtAidt’s collection is also very weird, but in a dark, Nordic way. Beautiful prose and terrible circumstances combine to create this incredible collection. If you think only the heft of a novel can make you really feel something, try these stories.
Night Hawks: Stories
Charles JohnsonThere are few writers who have mastered storytelling as well as National Book Award winner Charles Johnson. Buddhist themes are the through-line to his tightly knit and twisty collection of stories.
Back Talk: Stories
Danielle LazarinThis debut was preceded by rave reviews. Each of the stories within deals with what it means to be a woman, and how women relate to and support each other. The nuanced, excellent writing establishes Lazarin as a writer to watch.