Essay & Short Story Reading Projects

Short stories read in 2013:

1. From A to Z by Susan Glaspell
2. The Black Cap by Katherine Mansfield
3. The Pain by Pauline Smith
4. Holiday Group by E.M. Delafield
5. The Music Box by Malachi Whitaker
6. Here We Are by Dorothy Parker
7. A Lovely Time by Dorothy Whipple
8. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
9. Dimanche by Irène Némirovsky

Here are links to the individual essays I am reading during 2010.  I hope to read an essay a week.

1. Essays: A Brief Introduction
2. Unpacking My Library, Walter Benjamin 
3. One a Tramp, Always . . ., M.F.K. Fisher
4. Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
5. A Drugstore in Winter, Cynthia Ozick
6. The Brown Wasps, Loren Eiseley
7. Read at Whim!, Michael Dirda
8. The Marginal World, Rachel Carson 
9. They All Just Went Away, Joyce Carol Oates
10. Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream, Joan Didion 
11. Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood, Richard Rodriguez
12. What Good is a Story, Barbara Kingsolver
13. Seeing, Annie Dillard
14. Blindness, Jorge Luis Borges    
15. Going Out for a Walk, Max Beerbohm
16. Satin Worship, Holly Welker
17. The Docks of London, Virginia Woolf 
18. Once More to the Lake, E.B. White
19. How Should One Read a Book, Virginia Woolf
20. Sweet Devourings, Eudora Welty
21. How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life, Barbara Kingsolver
22. The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich

These are the individual short stories I read over the course of 2008 for Kate's Short Story Reading Challenge. 

1. "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment" by Mary McCarthy (from The Company She Keeps)
2. "The Will" by Mary Lavin (from In a Cafe)
3. "Piranha to Scurfy" by Ruth Rendell (from Piranha to Scurfy and Other Stories)
4. "The Sorrows of Gin" by John Cheever (from The Stories of John Cheever)
5. "Her Last Appearance" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (from Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology")
6. Three stories: "QL 696.C9" by Anthony Boucher, "The Tractate Middoth" by M.R. James, "The Public Library" by Isaac Babel (from In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians)
7. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (from Project Gutenberg)
8. "Cruise (Letters from a Young Lady of Leisure)" by Evelyn Waugh (from The Oxford Book of Travel Stories)
9. "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton (from Roman Fever and Other Stories)
10. "Three by Saki": "The Open Window", "The Unrest-Cure" and "Esmé" (from Project Gutenberg)
11. "Storm in a Tea Shoppe" by Carola Dunn (from Crime Through Time)
12. "The Ladies of Grace Adieu" by Susanna Clarke (from The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories)
13. "Jeeves Takes Charge" by P.G. Wodehouse (from Carry On, Jeeves)
14. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
15. Two stories: "Disorder in the Head" and "Hole in the Wall" by Zoran Zivkovic (from Steps Through the Mist)
16. "Mimi with a Watering Can" by Susan Vreeland (from Life Studies: Stories)
17. "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street" by J.S. Le Fanu (from The Oxford Book of Victorian Short Stories)
18. "Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates (from American Short Story Masterpieces)
19. "Letters from the Samantha" by Mark Helprin (from American Short Story Masterpieces)
20. "Ile Forest" by Ursula Le Guin (from American Short Story Masterpieces)
21. Two Stories: "When the Waters Came" and "Gas Masks" (from Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War)
22. "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber (from 50 Great Short Stories)
23. Three by Chekhov: "The Confession", "He Understood", and "At Sea: A Sailor's Story" (from Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories)
24. "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver (online)
25. "The Standard of Living" by Dorothy Parker (from The Portable Dorothy Parker)
26. "The Right Side of Thirty" by Winifred Holty (from Remember, Remember!: The Selected Stories of Winifred Holtby)
27. "The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows" by Rudyard Kipling (from Selected Stories)
28. "The Sow in the River" by Mary Clearman Blew (from Circle of Women)
29. "The Three Day Blow" by Ernest Hemingway (from 50 Great Short Stories)
30. "Miss Anstruther's Letters" by Rose Macaulay and The Story of Muhammad Din by Rudyard Kipling
31. "Miriam" by Truman Capote (from First Fiction)
32. "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
33. "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck (from 50 Great Short Stories)
34. Two Stories: "The Face of My People" by Anna Kavan and "A Journey" by Olivia Manning (from Wave Me Goodbye)
35. "Until the Girl Died" by Anne Enright (from Yesterday's Weather)
36. Two Ghost Stories: "Laura" by Saki (from Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories) and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe (from The Tell Tale Heart and Other Writings)
37. "Haunted" by Joyce Carol Oates (from The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories)
38. "Canon Alberic's Scrap Book" by M.R. James (from Count Magnus and Other Stories)
39. "The Haunting of Shawley Rectory" by Ruth Rendell (from The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories)
40. "The Love of a Good Woman" by William Trevor (from  The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories)
41. "The Lady's Maid's Bell" by Edith Wharton (from The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton)
42. "The Night the Ghost Got In" by James Thurber (from The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories)
43. "A Spot of Gothic" by Jane Gardam (from The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories)
44. "A String of Beads" by W. Somerset Maugham (from 50 Great Short Stories)
45. "A Red Letter Day" by Elizabeth Taylor (from Short Story Masterpieces) 
46. "The Ghosts" by  Lord Dunsany (from 75 Short Masterpieces) 
47. "The Phoenix" by Sylvia Townsend Warner (from 50 Great Short Stories)     
48. "Grandma isn't Playing" by Edna Ferber (from Wave Me Goodbye) 
49. "The Lovely Leave" by Dorothy Parker (from  Wave Me Goodbye) 
50. "The Mysterious Kôr" by Elizabeth Bowen (from Wave me Goodbye)  
51. "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton"  by Charles Dickens (from A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings) 
52. Three WWII stories: "Night Engagement", "The Land Girl" and "The Sailor's Wife" (from Wave Me Goodbye)