The Spot
David Means is my favorite contemporary short story writer. Let "The Spot", from last week's New Yorker, serve as Exhibit A.
posted by Adam at 4:58 PM
27.8.06
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- January
1. Lucky at Cards by Lawrence Block
2. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
February
3. Prisoner of Trebekistan, by Bob Harris
4. The Night Gardener, by George Pelecanos
5. Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, by Richard Burgin
6. The Evolution of Useful Things, by Henry Petroski
7. Robbie's Wife, by Russell Hill
8. World War Z, by Max Brooks
March
9. On the Pleasure of Hating, by William Hazlitt
10. My War Gone By, I Miss It So, by Anthony Loyd
11. Joe Gould's Secret, by Joseph Mitchell
12. Strip Jack, by Ian Rankin
April
13. The Wasp Factory, by Iain Bank
14. Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
15. The Vengeful Virgin, by Gil Brewer
16. Love and Longing in Bombay, by Vikram Chandra
17. A Firing Offense, by George Pelecanos
18. McSweeney's #23, edited by Dave Eggers
19. Eastern Standard Tribe, by Cory Doctorow
May
20. Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream, by Javier Marias
21. The Wounded and the Slain, by David Goodis
22. After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
June
23. The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolano
24. The Black Book, by Ian Rankin
25. The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon, by Anthony Summers
26. Blackmailer, by George Axelrod, 202
July
27. Forgetting Things, by Sigmund Freud
28. Under the Clock, by Tony Harrison
29. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
31. Songs of Innocence, by Richard Aleas
August
32. Bangkok 8, by John Burdett
33. Chuck Klosterman IV
34. Coming Through Slaughter, by Michael Ondaatje
35. The Pat Hobby Stories, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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