Hey Justin! The story you're thinking of is "The School" by Donald Barthelme.
I can always make time for that one.
One of my all time faves: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates.
What's your favorite story (if you have the time to share).
Charleston gratitude and overdue update
I've been good about keeping things updated over on my website, but not as successful in updating this dear old blog. Many apologi...
-
I've been good about keeping things updated over on my website, but not as successful in updating this dear old blog. Many apologi... -
Are there certain things that you will never do in a poem, either intentionally or unintentionally? Are there things that you won't wri... -
I don't think I'm alone in saying that poets are often the most in love with their current work. At least that's the case w...
17 comments:
I'd have to vote for Franz Kafka's "The Hunger Artist."
Ooooh! Gerald, that's a good one. I always keep a bookmark for that story.
Nice seeing you around!
Mary:
Thank you. You rock!. I just stopped by David's blog and thanked him.
Thank you for taking the time to find the story and link it up.
What I am sending to you , now seems small in comparison.
No prob, Justin! It was great reading that story again...though now I want to write a story instead of swatting gnats and planning syllabi.
You didn't send me these gnats, did you? ;)
"Where are you going? Where have you been?" is a favorite of mine, too. "Hills Like White Elephants," by Hemingway is another. There are SO many. Oates, Cheever, Carver, are the authors I turn to again and again.
Mary:
You are going to laugh when you see what I am sending you.
"We Didn't" by Stuart Dybek.
Yes, I'm voting multiple times. You can take the girl out of Chicago, but...
"Like Life" Lorrie Moore.
And all of the stories in Kevin Canty's collection _A Stranger in This World_. If you haven't read Canty, for the love of God do it!! ;)
"Flowers for Algernon," Daniel Keyes
Anything by Aimee Bender.
Her entire first book, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, was FANTASTIC! I couldn't put it down, I just kept reading story after story after story. I would recommend it to anyone.
i too love reading and teaching aimee bender. one of my favorites though is "How Far She Went," by Mary Hood.
Any of the Wodehouse Golf stories... or Uncle Fred.... or Bertie.... or or or
I can't pick one.
"The School" by Barthelme
"The Glass Mountain" by Barthelme
"Emergency" by Denis Johnson
"Little Things" by Carver (I hate it, really, but that's why I love it.)
And of course, "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?"
So NOBODY is going to say "The Lottery"? Apparently this is not an intro to fiction class.
As I Lay Dying.
Faulkner . . .mmmmm.
Anything by Andre Dubus (esp. "The Fat Girl" and "Killers"). Anything by Frank O'Hara--a master. Fitzgerald's "The Rich Boy." "The Dead" by James, followed closely by Araby. "For Esme with Love and Squalor" by Salinger.
Newer stories--anything by Gurganus; "Until Gwen" by Dennis Lehane. That story explodes!
Better stop now--I'm getting wound up.
Mary, I thought of saying "The Lottery," but it was too obvious of a choice. Great story though.
Post a Comment