Looking for collections of short stories that are realistic. I've heard Raymond Carver and Chekhov are supposed to be good, but who else?
Short Stories
Looking for collections of short stories that are realistic. I've heard Raymond Carver and Chekhov are supposed to be good, but who else?
O. Henry, De Maupassant and Chekhov are the Big 3 in short stories. I can personally vouch for O. Henry's skill in dialogue and Chekhov's deep analysis of human interactions. I haven't read much Maupassant but the ones I've read are quite enjoyable
Flannery O'Connor and Saki.
>Flannery O'Connor
I've heard this name before. What's her deal? What's she about?
Paul Bowels.
She was a solid writer but hampered as a writer by her religion, which she acknowledged but never tried to move past for some reason. Can be a bit tiresome if you are not christian/catholic, she does not go on and on about religion or anything but there is a definite slant and blindspot on her part.
Yeah she’s kinda a one trick pony. Unless you’re really into that slant, once you’ve read her best few stories there is little reason to read more
Lol, I could say the same about most other short story writers who are irreligious
Most irreligious short story authors are hindered by their catholicism? News to me. You are getting triggered by something she openly acknowledged and is fairly obvious unless you are also blinded by your faith.
>redditor seething that a good writer, like most good writers who have ever lived, believes in God
>larper seething to try and convince himself of his larp
most people believe in God troon, it's not political and sorry it scares you.
Borges’ Ficciones
Joyce’s Dubliners
Melville’s The Piazza Tales
Kafka’s The Metamorphasis and Other Tales
Alice Munro’s Selected Tales
If you throw in some Chekhov that’s basically most of the Kino
Amy Hempel, maybe John Cheever too
>dall e in 2023
nigga do you know what stable diffusion is?
Denis Johnson
Barry Lopez
Julio Cortazar (though he has some magic realist elements)
F. Scott Fitzgerald collected stories
When the King speaks, you listen.
PKD's Voices from the Street. They are not like his scifi stuff.