If you, like some of us, have been struggling to make it through some of your more ambitious reading material, these story collections will get your mind off our present moment for at least a few minutes
Photo: Courtesy of the Retailers If you, like some of us, have been struggling to make it through some of your more ambitious reading material — like Middlemarch, In Search of Lost Time, or Journal of a Plague Year especially — it might be time to consider a short story. Sure, they might not give you the sense of accomplishment you’d feel tearing through a tome, but they are economical, transportive vehicles all on their own.
$15 at Bookshop Buy The Bed Moved by Rebecca Schiff Disclaimer: I would rather read Middlemarch or In Search of Lost Time than a short-story collection. That being said, when I read Rebecca Schiff’s The Bed Moved four years ago, I remember thinking it was my ideal collection. The main narrator, an irreverent 20-something woman with a very dark sense of humor, is hilarious; the stories are simply a joy to read.
From $9 at Bookshop Buy The Human Comedy by Honoré de Balzac $16 Upon rereading Balzac’s 1832 short story “A Passion in the Desert,” it strikes me as relevant to a couple phenomena that have come to dominate our days: self-isolation and the Netflix docuseries Tiger King. A young French soldier on a military expedition in Egypt falls into the hands of an opposing army but manages to escape.
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