This is another short post about a recommendation - this one focusing on a series run by The Library of America called Story of the Week. This one's fun since it allows readers to check out selections from the Library of America's collection while also getting some background information. There's not a whole lot more that needs to be said about this since it pretty much explains itself but I'll post links to some of the most notable selections:
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"The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson
"The School" by Donald Barthelme
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
"A Stick of Green Candy" by Jane Bowles
"The Tarot Witch" by Ray Bradbury
"Positive Obsession" by Octavia E. Butler
"Kindling" by Raymond Carver
"Paul's Case" by Willa Cather
"The Swimmer" by John Cheever
"Athénaïse" by Kate Chopin
"After Henry" by Joan Didion
"The Ice Palace" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A Young Pacifist" by Paul Goodman
"The Empress's Ring" by Nancy Hale
"Arson Plus" by Dashiell Hammett
"Yuki-Onna" by Lafcadio Hearn
"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
"Spunk" by Zora Neale Hurston
"The Spectre Bridegroom" by Washington Irving
"A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett
"Haircut" by Ring Lardner
"The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Three-Ten to Yuma" by Elmore Leonard
"Natural History, the Forgotten Science" by Aldo Leopold
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
"Idiots First" by Bernard Malamud
"The Actual Thing" by William Maxwell
"The Great Eaters of Georgia" by Carson McCullers
"The Hills of Zion" by H.L. Mencken
"Manifest Destiny U.S.A." by Albert Murray
"The Loudest Voice" by Grace Paley
"The Charmed Life" by Katherine Anne Porter
"The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth" by Charles Portia
"Patrimony" by Philip Roth
"When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
"The Longest Day Dawns" by Cornelius Ryan
"Old Flaming Youth" by Jean Stanford
"Taste in Music" by Virgil Thomas
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
"Hunting the Deceitful Turkey" by Mark Twain
"The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd" by John Updike
"Petrified Man" by Eudora Welty
"Business Deal" by Nathaniel West
"Krakatau" by Edward O. Wilson
"Finishing School for Pickets" by Howard Zinn
Nearing four hundred entries, these are just a blip compared to the rest - you can also check out the entries by author or by order.