Online Short Story thread
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Just looking for some links / recs to browse on my phone when I'm out and about without a book at hand. Thought it would be good for other users to get free access to shorts too.
Read Nabokov's "Symbols and Signs" which can be found here:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/05/15/symbols-and-signs
Also got Thomas' "A Child's Christmas In Wales" here:
http://m.poemhunter.com/poem/a-child-s-christmas-in-wales/comments/
Can anyone else contribute?
Thanks OP! Here's a few I enjoy:
Good People by David Foster Wallace
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/05/good-people
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
http://multivax.com/last_question.html
A collection of Kafka's short stories
http://franzkafkastories.com/shortStories.php
"--And the Moon be Still as Bright" (From The Martian Chronicles) by Ray Bradbury
http://genius.com/Ray-bradbury-june-2001-and-the-moon-be-still-as-bright-annotated
Good old Neon by David Foster Wallace
https://stanford.edu/~sdmiller/octo/files/no_google2/GoodOldNeon.pdf
>>8050888
OP here, these will be my first foray into DFW. They a good representation?
>>8050897
Depending on who you'd ask. I'd start with Good People first. Work through some of his essays and short stories. You'll get a feeling for his writing style and the paths he goes down (intellectually)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster.html
Forever Overhead by David Foster Wallace
https://welcometotheloonybin.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/forever-overhead/
Save Good Old Neon until after you've read a bit of his stuff.
>>8050911
Ill do that. Thanks man!
http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/jorge-luis-borges-favorite-short-stories.html
Seven short stories adored by our beloved Borgie-worgie
>>8050975
I love this story
>I suddenly quite unexpectedly exploded with laughter. But pulling myself together and realising that to laugh at such a moment was not the thing for an old family friend, I turned at once to Elena Ivanovna and said with a sympathetic air:
>“Now it’s all over with our friend Ivan Matveitch!”
Good recovery Fyodor.
>>8050939
check out "Big Red Son" featuring Max Hardcore. (one of the first of DFW's that I read). link: http://social.rollins.edu/wpsites/sexwarandplague/files/2012/07/DF-Wallace-Big-Red-Son.pdf
>>8052347
Cheers will do
>>8050897
His short stories are really hit and miss. Broom of the System or Infinite Jest are better starting points.