NP - Cloud Atlas Trailer

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 01:02:22 CDT 2012


Annie Proulx's Close Range collection of Wyoming stories ranks high on my
list.

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Prashant Kumar <
siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:

> My vote would go to Borges' Labyrinths. Not for any truly defensible
> reason, but I use Labyrinths as my short fiction touchstone.
>
> Prash
>
> On 30 July 2012 07:36, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Which is, of course, true.  However, Everything That Rises Must
>> Converge, is pretty terrific, as is any collection of Alice Munro's you
>> care to peruse.  And Collected Stories of John Cheever and Faulkner -- The
>> Unvanquished. And, of course, Chekhov and Borges.  And Kafka.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> To: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
>> Cc: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>; pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Sun, Jul 29, 2012 12:07 pm
>> Subject: Re: NP - Cloud Atlas Trailer
>>
>>  "Duh" because it's probably the best short story collection in English.
>>
>> On Saturday, July 28, 2012, David Morris wrote:
>>
>>> Why? Duh!
>>>
>>> On Saturday, July 28, 2012, David Morris wrote:
>>>
>>>> Duh, Dubliners.
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, July 28, 2012, David Morris wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> OK
>>>>> Let's list short story collections that are better, and why.
>>>>>
>>>>
>


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groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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