This week, Joseph and Amanda talk about some of their favourite short story collections - ranging from canonical gems to new voices - plus, as always, they talk about what they’ve been reading recently and discuss what they’re excited to read next. 

Bookish news

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Red Balloon Books

Milkweed Books

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Standwithminnesota.com

The TS Eliot Prize

Wellwater by Karen Solie 

Recent Reads 

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan @patrickryanyc

A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell 

A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Short Story Collections

Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny @katherineheiny

Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny 

Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny

Mslexia

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer @zzpacker56

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Armsby Ernest Hemingway

Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed by Margaret Atwood and others @therealmargaretatwood

Stories of Place:///zinc.level.blindfold edited by Niamh McAnally @niamh_mcanally

The Latehomecomer: Essential Stories by Mavis Gallant

The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda @matsudaoko

You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi @lilianacolanzi, translated by Chris Andrews 

Selected stories by Nikolai Gogol

Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn

What We’re Reading Next 

I’m Glad My Mother Died by Jennette McCurdy @jennettemccurdy

Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy

Palaver by Bryan Washington @bry.washing

Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio

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