Post your three favorite short stories and other anons will judge you based on your selection

Post your three favorite short stories and other anons will judge you based on your selection

>David Foster Wallace - "Incarnations of Burned Children"
>Ernest Hemingway - "The End Of Something"
>Kurt Vonnegut - "Harrison Bergeron"

my -"Work"
diary - "Safe"
desu - "Request"

eric my good meme, simply eric

violating global rule 16 is my favorite meme, lucky for me that Veeky Forums is nothing but rec threads now

In The Penal Colony
Oblivion
The Oval Portrait

richard yates - fun with a stranger
raymond carver - a small good thing
william gass - the pedersen kid

>DeLillo: Human Moments in World War III
>Joyce: The Dead
>Wallace: Suffering Channel
>Any Kafka paragraph length story but if I had to pick it'd be Unhappiness

1+1+1+1=3

I preferred In the Heart of the Heart of the Country a lot more than that Gass story. But Heart is also an all time favorite.

Mind explaining why you liked it and what you took away from the ending? Honestly, I'm not sure I followed the last couple pages entirely. It seemed like he was saying something I just couldn't get a read on.


My favorites:
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Bullet in the Brain (Read it it you haven't-- its beatiful and only five quick pages)
-Incarnations is amazing but I probably prefer
-Good Old Neon
-Sections of Steps
-Library of Babel
-The Truth and all its Ugly
-Signs and Symbols

The Hero as Werewolf - Wolfe(!)
The Blue Yonder - Vollmann
A Painful Case - Joyce

I don't know, I'm bad at picking favourites. It would be easier to choose five or ten different collections rather than individual stories.

>they is, they is, they is

Is Bullet in the Brain by Gass?

Theologians - Borges
Dimensions - Munro
Hereditário - Barbosa

To Build a Fire by Jack London.

Tobias Wolff.

I'll hold you if you cry, user.

I know, I know. I get chills every time I think for more than five seconds about those last two paragraphs or so. Can't read it nearly as often as I'd like to.

Did you just read it for the first time?

The Dead - Joyce
The Bear - Faulkner
Tell the Women We're Going - Carver

No Place for You My Love - Eudora Welty
The Hunger Artist - Kafka
The Dead - Joyce

I read the DFW in college and the KV in middle school. The DFW is fantastic.

I liked Order of Insects by Gass from that collection best.

Barth - Night-sea Journey
Gass - Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizibeth Bishop's
Borges - Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

which collection is has that Munro story?

Carta a una señorita en Paris - Cortázar
Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote - Borges
The Kiss - Chekhov

Honourable mentions: Joyce and Kafka

Too much happiness

I read it in an anthology but its apparently from Too Much Happiness.

Robbe-Grillet - The Wrong Direction
Mishima - Patriotism
Gira - A Game

Seem like cool dudes who I respect

thanks f a m

>Wells Tower - "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned"
>George Saunders - "Sea Oak"
>Kevin Brockmeier - "The Ceiling"

I love The Music of Erich Zann by Lovecraft and Ligeia by Poe.

The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Borges
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by PKD

get fucked wannabe-patricians.

The Library of Babel
Funes the Memorious
Three Versions of Judas

The Dunwich Horror - H.P.Lovecraft
Robinson Krausz - Frigyes Karinthy
The Dead - James Joyce

Incarnations destroys me 100 percent of the time

>Did you just read it for the first time?
Yeh. I chuckled for a moment because I thought "this is exactly what would happen to your average Veeky Forumsizen during a scenario like this" but then the ending truly sunk in and I became a wreck.

Bullet in the Brain was shit sorry to say

le ebin contrarian post xD

Nah it's just a shitty written, cliche-riddled story.
I'm sorry you have such shit taste.

I just read it for the first time. I didn't really feel anything either but then I am mostly dead inside.

one day imma getchu

Forever Overhead - David Foster Wallace
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
Araby - James Joyce

That's exactly how I felt the first time I read it.

All of his stuff is great. This Boy's Life and Old School are worth reading. His stories are probably his most moving, imo.

He has my vote for one of the best living American authors.

If you want to feel inspired to write/you're kinda unsure of yourself and your ability, Old School we'll be worth your time.

>cliche riddled

...

You saw the cliches yet you missed nearly everything the story was saying about them. Learn how to read properly.

Wolff is a masterful short story writer, and probably the most disciplined out there.

Good stories, surprised I have actually read a lot of people's favorites here.

Guess it's obviously easier to be more well read with short stories.

patrician detected

Oh I understood what he was saying. The only problem is it's been said a million times already.
I'm not talking about the cliches you're talking about by the way. I understand those were integral to the story.

Mind elaborating. Don't mean to sound like a douche. Actually interested.

Borges, 'The Library of Babel'
Dostoyevsky, 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man'
Krzhizhanovsky, 'The Runaway Fingers'

>Bullet in the Brain
I've just read it online right now b/c I was curious and it's objectively shit. Good on that guy for enforcing some taste on Veeky Forums.