So, you’re probably aware that The New Yorker has opened up some of its archive for the summer.
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.
Here’s another list, a baker’s dozen, including some stuff I hadn’t read before the archive opened, as well as suggestions offered by some folks on twitter:
“The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill
“Escape from Spiderhead” by George Saunders
“The Five-Forty-Eight” by John Cheever”
“Brother on Sunday” by A.M. Homes
“A Beneficiary” by Nadine Gordimer
“A Village After Dark” by Kazuo Ishiguro
“Other People’s Deaths” by Lore Segal
“Going for Beer” by Robert Coover
Biblioklept 