March 2013: Short Stories

1. "Transatlantic" by Colum McCann, The New Yorker April 16, 2012; also part of his novel Transatlantic.
(read by the author)

2. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" by Nathan Englander,  The New Yorker December 12, 2011; also collected in What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories

3. "Runaway" by Alice Munro, The New Yorker August 11, 2003; also collected in Runaway
(full text)

4. "The Man with the Lapdog" by Beth Lordan, The Atlantic February 1999; also collected in But Come Ye Back: A Novel in Stories
(full text)

5. Selections from "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" by Flannery O'Connor, 1960. Collected in Mystery and Manners.
(full text (with a few typos))

6. "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by Flannery O'Connor, 1955. From A Good Man is Hard to Find.
(audio; full text)

7. "Lily Daw and the Three Ladies" by Eudora Welty, 1937, in The Prairie Schooner. Collected in The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.
(audio - scroll to "What Do Women Want"; full text)

8. "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury, Collier's May 6, 1950. Collected in The Martian Chronicles.
(full text)

9. "For Esmé - with Love and Squalor" by J.D. Salinger, The New Yorker April 8, 1950. From Nine Stories.