Best/favorite short story writers

>Guy de Maupassant

This guy gets it

Chekhov and Borges.

Bukowski

>Best is definitely Borges no matter who you are
He very rarely explored the psychology of his characters like many other short story writers do, so I wouldn't say he is the absolute best, just one of the best.

Ernest Hemingway and Kjell Askildsen

Chekhov and Kafka hands down.

Carver
DFW
Borges
Joyce
Hemingway
Denis Johnson
Byatt
Munro
James Baldwin

Borges
Kyle Minor

Same guy here. If you guys haven't read Kyle Minor, do so. He has two short story collections out (the latest came out in 2014). I think/hope he's working on a novel. He's going to be meme-status after it drops. Praying Drunk is where I started. Hope someone on kit has read/will read him. Praying Drunk can be found online.

Flannery O'Connor
Gene Wolfe
James Joyce
Anton Chekhov
Nikolai Gogol

These are my favourites.

I was guiled into buying this. Do not repeat my mistake. LEARN FROM ME

Ayyy, I "stole" this from a hostel library because it seemed interesting. Threw it out of a bus because, indeed, most of them sucked. Not a single Great one among them.

>Pancake

I cant take it seriously but i hear much about their work. Any good?

not the guy who posted, but I've only read his s.story "hollow" and it was one of the best reads of the year

Brautigan

Hans Christian Andersen
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All the bests~ have been mentioned but my personal favourite is Katherine Mansfield.

D

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P A N C A K E

Mine too. I love his longer stuff as well.

This was one of the first books I read in English. I remember wrote a few great ones. Then again, I hadn't really read that much then.

chekhov and carver

*quite a few great ones