As the year winds down, it's time to think about the best short stories from The New Yorker. Last year, as you may recall, we declared two great stories co-winners of the 2009 Story of the Year honors: Chris Adrian's "A Tiny Feast" and George Saunders's "Victory Lap."
To nominate, send me an email or leave a comment here mentioning your favorites. I'll take those nominations into consideration in formulating a list of the Top Ten New Yorker Stories of 2010, and then in late December I'll post a poll for voting. I'll announce the winner on January 1, 2011.
All of this year's stories (and a considerable number of novel excerpts) have been discussed to some degree on this blog. To refresh your recollection, brows through the posts: 2010 New Yorker Fiction.
I'm very curious to know what your favorites are!
9 comments:
I'm going with the Jim Shepard story, Cliff. Kind of a lackluster year, but that one stood out.
Agreed, lackluster year, but there were a few greats.
1) Both Jennifer Egan's: "Safari" and "Ask Me If I Care"
2) "Foster" by Claire Keegan
3) "Twins" by C.E. Morgan
Anon-
I liked all those, too, although only "Foster" is a story. The others are novel excerpts.
oh, my mistake--didn't know that we couldn't nominate excerpts.
"The Landlord," by Wells Tower.
I agree it is sort of like reading a condensed novel, but it was a great job of defining the protag by the characters in his life.
I heard Jim Shepard read his short story "Boys Town" at Skidmore. It's a great story when he reads it.
Just scrolled through your tag of NYer 2010, curious to see which stories I remembered this year...several are novel excerpts, but here are the ones that stuck with me:
Jim Shepard, Boystown
Karen Russell, Dredgeman's Revelation
Nicole Krauss (novel excerpt)
ZZ Packer, (novel excerpt)
Junot Diaz (oops--didn't note title)
Claire Keegan, Foster
Jennifer Egan, Safari (novel)
Granted, I didn't read a majority of the stories, but my vote is for "The Yellow" by Samantha Hunt.
"Birdsong" by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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