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. 

(1:24) Bookish news

(2:20) Birchbark Books

(2:27) Inkwell Books

(2:40) Red Balloon Books

(2:56) Excelsior Bay Books / Milkweed Books / Black Garnet Books

(3:08) Shop Minneapolis bookshops from anywhere at Bookstore.org and libro.fm

(4:31) Standwithminnesota.com

(5:36) The TS Eliot Prize

(6:03) Wellwater by Karen Solie 

(7:17) Recent Reads 

(7:27) Buckeye by Patrick Ryan @patrickryanyc

(12:40) A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell

(17:14) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

(18:17) Short Story Collections

(18:26) Joseph's Short Story Quiz

(25:38) Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny @katherineheiny

(30:59) Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny

(34:32) Mslexia

(34:45) Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer @zzpacker56

(40:42) In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

(46:37) The Latehomecomer: Essential Stories by Mavis Gallant

(51:18) Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed by Margaret Atwood and others @therealmargaretatwood

(52:21) Stories of Place:///zinc.level.blindfold edited by Niamh McAnally @niamh_mcanally

(53:00) The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda @matsudaoko

(56:40) You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi @lilianacolanzi, translated by Chris Andrews 

(58:06) Selected stories by Nikolai Gogol

(59:19) Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn

(59:59) What We’re Reading Next 

(1:00:13) I’m Glad My Mother Died by Jennette McCurdy @jennettemccurdy

(1:00:50) Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy

(1:01:19) Palaver by Bryan Washington @bry.washing

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

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