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Best Short Story Writers

ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
edited July 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
I've just finished reading a book of short stories by Graham Greene called '21 Stories' - very good little book.

I'm wondering who people think are some of the best short story writers.

I love the short stories of Bukowski - 'Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness'. Also, Paul Bowles, Albert Camus, and Flannery O'Connor.
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  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    Good list...Raymond Carver should always be at or near the top of a list like this. Other notables that come to mind include Anton Chekhov, ZZ Packer and of course Hemingway..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • EnkiduEnkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" is fantastic. I love Flannery O'Connor, too.

    I'll check out "21 Stories."
  • RascalKingRascalKing Posts: 31
    Vonnegut!
  • EnkiduEnkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    How could I forget Raymond Carver? I'm an idiot.

    Adam Haslett, "You Are Not a Stranger Here." Very very good.
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Moses
    NERDS!
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I've been meaning to check out Raymond Carver for a long time.

    Maybe now is the time.
  • lephtylephty Posts: 770
    Edgar Allen Poe!
  • orig_long redorig_long red Posts: 2,029
    Bukowski - Notes of a Dirty Old Man.
    Jam out with your clam out.
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    lephty wrote:
    Edgar Allen Poe!

    I was gonna say this. Not a big reader here, but I remember "dissecting" some of his stuff in high school.
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