{"id":3349,"date":"2011-05-31T05:27:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T10:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?page_id=3349"},"modified":"2011-06-30T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:04:43","slug":"what-i-read-during-national-short-story-month-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?page_id=3349","title":{"rendered":"What I Read During National Short Story Month 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the list of stories that I read during National Short Story Month, 2011. If the date has a link, it points to the piece I wrote about it for Markings. If the title has a link, the story is available online. If the author’s name has a link, the author has a personal website.<\/p>\n

05\/01\/2011<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “A Country Where You Once Lived<\/a>.” Robin Black<\/a>. in If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This<\/em>. Random House, 2010.
\n05\/02\/2011<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “In Its Place.” Janice Shapiro<\/a>. in Bummer and Other Stories.<\/em> Soft Skull Press. 2010
\n05\/03\/2011<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Second Child.” Kathryn Ma<\/a>. in All That Work and Still No Boys<\/em>. University of Iowa Press, 2009.
\n05\/04\/2011<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Sister Imelda.” Edna O’Brien. in A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories<\/em>. Penguin Books, 1984.
\n05\/05\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Revelation.” Jessica Treadway<\/a>. in Please Come Back To Me.<\/em> The University of Georgia Press. 2010.
\n05\/06\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Professor Asher’s Magnificent Party Hat.” Curtis Smith<\/a>. in The Species Crown<\/em>. Press 53, 2007.
\n05\/07\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Jonas<\/a>.” Belle Boggs<\/a>. in Mattaponi Queen<\/em>. Graywolf Press, 2010.
\n05\/08\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Heart Shaped Rock.” Antonya Nelson<\/a>. in Some Fun: Stories and a Novella<\/em>. Scribner, 2006.
\n05\/09\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “The Beginning of Grief.” Nicholas Montemarano<\/a>. in If the Sky Falls<\/em>. Yellow Shoe Fiction, 2005.
\n05\/10\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Furlough<\/a>.” Alexi Zentner<\/a>. in The Atlantic<\/em>. Fiction 2009.
\n05\/11\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Boy with Finch.” Sara Majka. in The Gettysburg Review<\/em>. Summer 2011.
\n05\/12\/2011<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Where the God of Love Hangs Out.” Amy Bloom<\/a>. in Where the God of Love Hangs Out<\/em>. Random House, 2010.
\n05\/13\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “The Pitcher.” Andre Dubus. in Fielder’s Choice: An Anthology of Baseball Fiction<\/em>. Jerome Holtzman, ed. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.
\n05\/14\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall<\/a>.” Katherine Anne Porter<\/a>. in The American Tradition in Literature, Revised, Volume 2<\/em>, W.W. Norton, 1962.
\n05\/15\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Cool, Trim, Quick in the Water.” Debra Monroe<\/a>. in A Wild, Cold State<\/em>, Scribner, 1995.
\n05\/16\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Overcast<\/a>.” Richard Bausch<\/a>. in Something Is Out There<\/em>. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
\n05\/17\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Chatter.” Catherine Brady<\/a>. in The Kenyon Review<\/em>. Spring 1996.
\n05\/18\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Lost Parts.” Ann Hood<\/a>. in The Ornithologist’s Guide to Life<\/em>. W.W. Norton, 2004.
\n05\/19\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “The Voyeur.” Kim Edwards<\/a>. in Story<\/em>, Winter 2000.
\n05\/20\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Blood Work,” Bonnie Jo Campbell<\/a>. in Story<\/em>, Winter 2000.
\n05\/21\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “The Nine Billion Names of God<\/a>.” Arthur C. Clarke<\/a>. in Man the Myth-Maker<\/em>. W.T. Jewkes, ed. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
\n05\/22\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Nobody Walks to the Mennonites.” Lori Ostlund<\/a>. in The Bigness of the World.<\/em> The University of Georgia Press, 2009.
\n05\/23\/2011<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “A Little Remote.” Evelyn Conlon<\/a>. in Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour<\/em>. The Blackstaff Press, 1993.
\n05\/24\/2011 <\/em><\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Autumn Sunshine.” William Trevor. in God: Stories<\/em>. C. Michael Curtis, ed. Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
\n05\/25\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Double Whammy.” Perri Klass<\/a>. in Ploughshares<\/em>. Fall 2003.
\n05\/26\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Kiss Him Goodnight.” Gabriel Brownstein. in Glimmer Train<\/em>. Summer 2011.
\n05\/27\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Painted Ship, Painted Ocean.” Rebecca Makkai<\/a>. in The Best American Short Stories 2010<\/em>. Houghton Mifflin 2010.
\n05\/28\/2011<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Sunday at the Mintons.” Sylvia Plath. in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams<\/em>. Faber and Faber, 1979.
\n05\/29\/2011<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “The Stories of the House.” Julie Hayden. in The Lists of the Past<\/em>, Viking, 1976.
\n05\/30\/2011<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Comrades<\/a>.” Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. in Civil War Women<\/em>. Frank McSherry et al. eds, August House, 1988.
\n05\/31\/2011<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “The Lives of the Dead.” Tim O’Brien. in The Things They Carried<\/em>. Penguin Books. 1990<\/p>\n


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