Re: THE INVERTED FOREST
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 13:24:53 +1000
> <<I know this doesn't mean a darn thing, but my current favorite short
> story
> writers, besides JD, are Sarah Orne Jewett and Sherwood Anderson. Also,
> if
> I was asked to make a list of ten, Charles Bukowski would definately
> have a
> spot on mine. Anyone care to fight?
>
> Patrick>>
>
> James Joyce John Cheever Flannery O'Connor Raymond Carver Anton Chekov
> and yeah, Salinger, and there's more. Much more. Top Freaking Ten? No
> way :)
Sorry, I should have expressed myself a little better - I should have
written Top Ten *In No Particular Order*. I find it just as impossible as
anyone to put some of my favourites ahead of any others. What I was hoping
to establish is some information, links, and most importantly, reader
opinions, about Ten (or so) of the greatest short story writers of the past
century or so. No Modern Library how-could-they-leave-X about it - I just
wanted to provide quality not quantity and perhaps introduce some people to
excellent writers they otherwise wouldn't have encountered (short stories
also being the ideal way to do this).
Absolutely the most important thing in my mind is, as Patrick said, that we
read them with passion.
Camille
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