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MICHAEL BRYSON’S TOP 10 SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

(In alphabetical order.)

Margaret Atwood, Dancing Girls and Other Stories

Could be the best book of short stories to ever come out of Canada.

Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

The title story is the king of heartbreakers.

 Mavis Gallant, Selected Stories

Ok, I haven’t even read the whole book, but every time I dip into it I’m stunned.

Douglas Glover, 16 Categories of Desire

Eleven stories exploring dark romanticism and the metaphors of desire.

Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

After all these years, still startling, gripping, compelling.

 Greg Hollingshead, White Buick

Hollingshead’s subsequent book The Roaring Girl won the Governor General’s Award, but for my money White Buick is better.

 Mark Anthony Jarman, 19 Knives

Prose like pyrotechnics.

 Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are?

The Alice Munro book I’ve been able to finish. It will remain with me forever.

 Hal Niedzviecki, Smell It

A shot from deep left field. Deep, deep left field. Absolutely audacious.

 Terry Southern, Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes

This book mixes grit-dirt realism with off-the-wall comic magic realism. Southern could do it all and make it look effortless.
 

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