As you, savvy reader, are undoubtedly already aware, The New Yorker has opened up some of its archive for the rest of the summer (to show off its website redesign, I guess).
Here’s a reading list of short fiction from the archives (admittedly, some of the stuff I wanted to put on here is still behind a paywall).
Some of the stories on the list are classics, some are pieces I’ve shared on this blog before, some are excerpts from longer works, and a few are stories I have yet to read myself.
“The Daughters of the Moon” by Italo Calvino
“Backbone” by David Foster Wallace
“My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age” by Grace Paley
“The Insufferable Gaucho” by Roberto Bolaño
“Victory Lap” by George Saunders
Biblioklept 
Thank you! I am going to try to read them all.
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Thank you for these. I’ve saved them all for reading at my leisure.
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Reblogged this on Amarillo Alternative News and commented:
One of the writers on this list (George Saunder) is originally from Amarillo.
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[…] I posted a reading list last month of some of my favorite short stories from the magazine (okay, favorite open stories), as well as a few I hadn’t read before, like pieces from Janet Frame and Annie Proulx. […]
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