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What are some good ones?
>inb4 Dubliners

>> No.16185097

Kafka has a comfy little collection of stories i wholeheartedly recommend.

>> No.16185105

Winesberg, Ohio

>> No.16185140

Tolstoy

>> No.16185748

Friedrich Georg Jünger

>> No.16185790

>>16185079
Borges is great. I'd recommend Averroes Search, the garden of forking paths, and the theologians for starters. His best collection is labyrinths.

>> No.16186298

>>16185079
Flannery O'Connor

>> No.16186306

>>16185105
Seconding Winesburg, Ohio. It was one of the biggest inspirations for Faulkner

>> No.16186597

>>16185079
If we’re talking collections:
Richard Yates- “Eleven Kinds of Loneliness“ and “Liars in Love“
J.D. Salinger- “Nine Stories”


Henry James if you specifically want something less modern, Raymond Carver if you specifically want something more modern

Andre Dubus also wrote a lot of good collections never mentioned here. His best stuff are like novella length though, despite being marketed as short stories.

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>> No.16187053

>>16185105
Martian Chronicles by Bradbury was heavily inspired by this.

>> No.16187074

>>16185079
Borges and Kafka are in a league of their own

>> No.16187077

Chekhov these dubs

>> No.16187141

>>16185079
i cant enjoy short stories. because they are short. help!

>> No.16187296

Gogol
Hawthorne

>> No.16187315

>>16186298
Seconding this. Best American short story writer in my opinion.

>> No.16187329

>>16187077
Checked and seconding.

Guy de Maupassant is a must when we ate talking short stories.

>> No.16187336

Melville and Faulkner

>> No.16187342

The Star by Arthur C Clarke is pretty neat

>> No.16187459

Balzac.

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>>16187141
Ask your girlfriend how she does it.

>> No.16187494

Out of the Basement Into the Fire by Beauford Buchanan

>> No.16187516

>>16187494
Seriously. You people need to read this. Obscure but great author. You know this guy is going to produce something great in the future.

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it's so fucking good

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great story. i only read two japanese short stories and this is the best, the other one is no longer human.

>> No.16188346

The smoky god (real life story of traveling to inner earth) 50 pages

The most dangerous game (best short story ever written) 28 pages

The machine stops (dystopian) 50 pages

3 great books that you can add to your shelf in half a day of reading

>> No.16188373

>>16185079
I've read this and I didn't understand the appeal of like half of the stories. Is it because I'm not Irish?

>> No.16188385

>>16188373
Yope, disgusting bigot confirmed, eat your bigot sandwiches and please re-evaluate your life ;-----).
But to provide OP with an answer; the Bible

>> No.16188875

>>16187796
Absolutely seconding this.