In no particular order:
1. Birds of America – Lorrie Moore
2. This Country of Mothers – Julianna Baggott
3. The Dig – Lynn Emanuel
4. Drown – Junot Diaz
5. My Happy Life – Lydia Millet
More Recommended Short Story Collections
In no particular order:
1. Best American Short Stories–ed. Shannon Ravenal, etc. (1980 – present)
2. O. Henry Prize Stories–ed. William Abrams, etc. (1980 – present)
3. The Joy Luck Club–Amy Tan
4. Lunar Landscapes–John Hawkes
5. Shiloh–Bobbie Ann Mason
Some Recommended Short Story Collections
In no particular order:
1. The Tales of Chekhov
2. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
3. Winesburg, Ohio–Sherwood Anderson
4. Damballah–John Edgar Wideman
5. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories–Yasunari Kawabata
My Europe
I FIRST SET FOOT on European soil–if we include Britain as a European country, which most Americans don’t–when I was twenty-three years old. I stayed a week, traveling around England and Scotland, visiting sites like Oxford and Coventry and Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-on-Avon, the castle of Mary Queen of Scots and Loch Ness and then Glen Coe, where my ancestors had been massacred. I went to pubs and drank lots of beer and ate lots of awful food, I rented a car and drove in the wrong lane, and in general tried to soak up as much atmosphere as I could, like any tourist. The book I was reading was George Orwell’s Road to Wigan Pier, and I liked to believe it still had some significance, it had something to say about the England I was seeing.
Flannery O’Connor Chili
It’s a thrill to be asked for a recipe for The Great American Writers’ Cookbook. I’m honored to be among such giants as Mr. Cheever and Miss Welty. I hope this’ll do:
Flannery O’Connor Chili
The Works of Stewart O'Nan 