Daphne Du Maurier's The Birds (1952) Arrow Books, 1992 Virago Modern Classic No. 498 My favourite story from this collection is "The Apple Tree". Partly because I've long believed that there is more to a tree than one might think, thanks to years of reading L.M. Montgomery's novels, in which
Dinaw Mengestu "An Honest Exit" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 July 12/19, 2010 issue The story begins with an imagined conversation: "Thirty-five years after my father left Ethiopia, he died in a room in a boarding house in Peoria, Illinois, that came with a partial view of the
Sarah Schun-Lien Bynum "The Erlking" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 July 5, 2010 "The New Yorker" This short story felt like a cobbler baked with ingredients courtesy of Alice Hoffman, Tom Perotta, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Oh, I know: some people hate it when someone says that a
Nicole Krauss "The Young Painters" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June 28, 2010 "The New Yorker" Mr. B.I.P. and I read this story together, and when we were done, he asked "Do the short stories you read always leave you with that many questions at the end?" No, they don't.
Aryn Kyle's Boys and Girls Like You and Me Scribner, 2010 One of my first favourite short story collections was Bronwen Wallace's People You Could Trust Your Life To and I loved it to bits because it felt so real. Like the text on its pages could have leapt up,
