Guy de Maupassant would make my top three list for shorts. Maybe number one.
- jimlouis 2-06-2009 8:54 pm [add a comment]

And Turgenev
- jimlouis 2-06-2009 9:04 pm [add a comment]

That Dorothy Parker short always made me cringe. Couldn't stand most of her stuff.

I have to go with (the great) Alice Munro, & Guy de Maupassant (Émile Zola wrote some great shorts too). & Edith Wharton.

(Sally once made the mistake of telling me that when she was young she wrote a very, very encouraging letter to Alice Munro. Keep up the good work!!)
- L.M. 2-06-2009 10:37 pm [add a comment]

Jesus' Son by
Denis Johnson

- Skinny 2-07-2009 2:41 pm [add a comment]

I did not! I did write a letter like that to Stephen Jay Gould though.Too bad he didn't write fiction, it woulda rocked.
- sally mckay 2-10-2009 11:49 pm [add a comment]

I didn't think she viewed this page and that I was safe to slander her.
- L.M. 2-11-2009 12:14 am [add a comment]

its good to have friends that can handle some good natured teasing.
- bill 2-11-2009 1:29 am [add a comment]

Good-natured teasing is an oxymoron, other than insofar as the calumny is that same thing of which one’s self is secretly ashamed.
- alex 2-11-2009 1:53 am [add a comment]

my friends would be creating their own hell if they couldn't.
- L.M. 2-11-2009 1:54 am [add a comment]

I read everything...eventually.
- sally mckay 2-11-2009 1:56 am [add a comment]

(utbay, igpay atinlay akestay her ongerlay.)
- L.M. 2-11-2009 2:08 am [add a comment]

huh? What? what are you saying about me now?! Damn those rural south western ontario schoolyard bitches who would never let me in on the pig latin code.
- sally mckay 2-11-2009 1:40 pm [add a comment]