BBC Short Story Shortlisters Favourite Short Story collections
The BBC Short story shortlisters have described their favourite short story collections here.
I have summarised their lists (as much as I can) below (for future reference):
I have summarised their lists (as much as I can) below (for future reference):
MJ Hyland.
Nikolai Gogol: Madmen and other stories.
Flannery O'Conner: A Good Man is Hard to Find.
Vladmir Nabakov: Dozen.
Joyce Carol Oates: (generally)
Alison Macleod
Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats.
Jon McGregor
Raymond Carver: Short Cuts.
Lydia Davis: Collected Stories.
K J Orr
Ethan Canin: Emperor of the Air
D W Wilson
Tim Winton: The Turning.
posted by Clare Dudman at 3:18 pm
2 Comments:
I just read a book of short stories by Steven Millhauser, a revered American author of whom I had never heard. The book was We Others - New & Selected Stories, and I enjoyed them immensely, especially the older stories. Millhauser writes exquisite prose and his stories all have a twist, they're slightly spooky, somewhat otherworldly. I was attracted to this book by a review written by Michael Dirda in the Washington Post.
Anyway, looking at the list you provided above, there are many other collections I can think of worthy of mention, eg Borges Labyrinths.
Thanks Anne! Millhauser sounds excellent. I'd not heard of him either. I have to confess I have never read any Borges - something I keep meaning to do.
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