Hello!
I have never read modern American short stories. And I do not know any modern American writer also. Please, could you recommend me any short story by a modern American writer which is worth to be read?
Thanks in advance.
Hello!
I have never read modern American short stories. And I do not know any modern American writer also. Please, could you recommend me any short story by a modern American writer which is worth to be read?
Thanks in advance.
Stephen King writes a lot of short stories.
I think one of his best is the Apt Pupil
That is the only modern author who I know off the top of my head that I have read any short stories from.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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How modern do you want your short stories? Flannery O'Connor and JD Salinger aren't strictly contemporary, but they wrote some brilliant stuff.
Stephen King is quite amazing..
but this journey, I believe, will lead me to bottomless seas
I looove that one. I didnt think it would end how it did.
If you ever get his book 'Everythings Eventual' Theres a good story called The Man in the Black Suit. There's actually several good stories in there.
I'd recommend King as a modern writer...I dont really know of any others.
I enjoy his writing, but in some ways I have a sort of love hate relationship with him, and his short stories for me can be hit and miss, but overall I think he is a really good writer, and I love reading him.
I have not read Everything is Eventural yet.
So far I have read, short story wise
The Night Shift
Different Seasons
The Skelenton Crew
And so not to confuse anyone, those are the names of books which contain several short stories.
Shawshank Redemption is another excellent short story by Stephen King
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Try T.C. Boyle. I think his short stories are awesome.
Joyce Carol Oats writes good short stories.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
I like Tobias Wolff alot. This is a story from his compilation "In the Garden of North American Matyrs". It's a dreary setting where reality is obscured by the elements and the characters cease to realize their common humanity. Enjoy "Hunters in the Snow".
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/huntsnow.html
I was kinda getting into Philip Roth's stories recently. You might give "The Conversion of the Jews" a shot.
People seem to have mixed feelings about the fiction that is published in The New Yorker, but I've never found it to be bad, so you might give that a shot as well.
"What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait."- Cheif, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Michael Chabon is a great short story writer (and novelist, too). His collection, A Model World, is pretty hard to beat.