The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov (One World)ġ3. Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz (Chatto & Windus)ġ2. Saints and Sinners by Edna O’Brien (Faber and Faber)ġ1. Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories by Barry Hannah (Atlantic)ġ0. It Was Just, Yesterday by Mirja Unge (Comma Press)ĩ.
The Granta Book of the African Short Story edited by Helon Habila (Granta)Ĩ. Best British Short Stories 2011 edited by Nicholas Royle (Salt)ħ. Best European Fiction 2012 edited by Aleksandar Hemon (Dalkey Archive)Ħ. The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall (Faber and Faber)ĥ. The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo (Picador)Ĥ. All the Lights (And Other Stories) by Clemens Meyerģ. Alice by Judith Hermann (Clerkenwell Press)Ģ. Check it out.Īnd for those of you who are too time poor to read the article, I feel your pain. Chris Power of the Guardian has compiled a list of the top short stories published this year and he contends that there were some fantastic short reads if you knew where to look. Thankfully next year is already being dubbed “The Year of the Short Story,” perhaps in response to those like me who are short on time and long on commitments.Īnother piece of good news: We don’t have to wait until 2012 to jump feet first into the short fiction fray.
With each passing year, my attention span wanes and my reading list gets more abbreviated.
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