Quick Bites

Andre Aciman, Are You Listening (non-fiction)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Birdsong (fiction), Notes on Grief (non-fiction)

Hilton Als, At the Jewish Beach (non-fiction)

Daphne Palasi Andreades, Brown Girls (fiction/creative nonfiction)

Donald Antrim, Finding a Way Back From Suicide, Fed (non-fiction), A Man in the Kitchen (non-fiction)

Hala Alyan, The Arsonists’ City: An Excerpt (fiction)

Kristen Arnett, Gator Butchering for Beginners (fiction, Electric Literature)

Jami Attenberg, An Apartment Affair(nonfiction); When Williamsburg Was on the Wrong Side of the River (nonfiction)

Pat Barker, Medusa (fiction)

Lucia Berlin,  Tiger Bites (fiction)

Amy Bloom, A Portion of Your Loveliness (fiction)

Sari Botton, How’s the Writing Going, Deesha Philyaw? (Q&A)

Anthony Bourdain, Don't Eat Before Reading This (non-fiction)

Karina Sainz Borgo, Scissors (fiction)

Octavia Butler, The Book of Martha (fiction)

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Bedtime Story (fiction)

Bonnie Jo Campbell The Solutions To Ben’s Problem

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Conduction (fiction)

Deborah Copaken, Three Rules for Middle Aged Happiness (non-fiction)

Lindsey Crittenden, The Ice Cube Moon (non-fiction)

Rachel Cusk, Making House: Notes on Domesticity (nonfiction)

Junot Diaz, The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma (nonfiction) 

Joan Didion, Goodbye to All That (nonfiction)

Jennifer Egan’s Disciplined Restlessness: Q&A with Deborah Treisman

Anne Enright, The Weight (flash fiction)

David Wright Falade, The Sand Banks, 1871 (fiction)

Roxane Gay Contrapasso (fiction)

Christopher Gonzalez, What You Missed While I Was Watching Your Cat (fiction) 

Garth Greenwell, The Frog King (fiction)

Tessa Hadley, The Bunty Club (fiction), The Other One (fiction), Funny Little Snake; Dido’s Lament; Silk Brocade

Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber; The Killers; Hills Like White Elephants; Pursuit as Happiness. And don’t miss Lillian Ross’s 1950 profile, How Do You Like it Now, Gentleman? The Moods of Ernest Hemingway.

Sheila Heti, Just a Little Fever (fiction)

Anna Heyward, Bad Dog (nonfiction)

Richard Howard, Baudelaire: Poems, A Progressive Education: Poems, Without Saying, Richard Howard Loves Henry James and Other American Writers, Inner Voices, Talking Cures, Trappings, The Silent Treatment

Brenna Hosman, Shadow on the Moon (flash fiction)

Hua Hsu, Ocean Vuong is Still Learning (nonfiction)

Jowhor Ile, Fisherman’s Stew (fiction)

Naomi Jackson, Her Kind (nonfiction);  A Litany for Survival (nonfiction); What Does Vex Money Do? (nonfiction)

Honor Jones, How I Demolished My Life (nonfiction)

Jay Kaspian Kang, What’s the Point of Reading Writing by Humans? (nonfiction)

Mieko Kawakami, Wisteria stra-mag.com/articles/wisteria/(fiction)

Etgar Keret, Director’s Cut (flash fiction)

Jamaica Kincaid, Girl  (fiction)

Stephen King, Cookie Jar (fiction)

Gwen Kirby, “Shit Cassandra Saw That She Didn’t Tell the Trojans Because at That Point Fuck Them Anyway” (SmokeLongQuarterly); “Here Preached His Last” (Electric Lit); "Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories” (Guernica);“A Few Normal Things That Happen a Lot” (Tin House); “How to Retile Your Bathroom in 6 Easy Steps!” (Cincinnati Review)

Phil Klay, After Action Report (fiction)

Linda Bostrum Knausgard, Wish (flash fiction)

Akil Kumaraswamy, ‘The Office of Missing Persons (fiction)

Jhumpa Lahiri, Trading Stories: Notes from an Apprenticeship (non-fiction)

Jill Lepore, The Lingering of Loss (nonfiction), The Prodigal Daughter (non-fiction); Annotation Tuesday! Jill Lepore and “The Prodigal Daughter” (Lepore annotates her piece, discusses Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin and raves about Henry Finder, her editor at The New Yorker)

Ken Liu, Paper Menagerie (fiction)

Ben Loehnen, On Losing a Husband and (Almost) Losing a Wedding Ring (nonfiction)

Carmen Maria Machado, The Husband Stitch (fiction)

RL Maizes, Not Saying My Dog is Cupid But…(Modern Love, NYT) 

Hisham Matar, The Return (nonfiction)

Colum McCann, The Word Shed (nonfiction), Looking for the Rozziner (memoir), But Always Meeting Ourselves (nonfiction)

David Means, Two Nurses Smoking (fiction)

Maile Meloy, O Tannenbaum (fiction); you can listen to Meloy read a version of Tannenbaum here on This American Life

Fiona McFarlane, Demolition (fiction)

Scholastique Mukasonga, Cattle Praise Song (fiction)

Alice Munro, , Amundsen (fiction), Carried Away (fiction), Corrie (fiction), Haven (fiction), Passion (fiction),  Save the Reaper (fiction), The Bear Came Over the Mountain (fiction), Runaway (fiction), .Turkey Season (fiction). Dear Life: (nonfiction). And don’t miss Deborah Treisman’s Q&A with Alice Munro about Dear Life 

Siddhartha Mukherjee, My Father’s Body, At Rest and in Motion (nonfiction), Runs in the Family (nonfiction)

Vladimir Nabokov, Portrait of My Mother (nonfiction)

Joyce Carol Oates, A Fragmented Diary in a Fragmented Time (nonfiction),The Lost Sister: An Elegy (nonfiction), Hospice/Honeymoon (Flash Fiction)

Tillie Olsen, As I Stand Here Ironing (fiction)

Joseph O’Neil, The Flier (fiction)

Han Ong, The Monkey Who Speaks (fiction)

Ann Patchett Flight Plan (nonfiction)

Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain (fiction)

David Rabe, Things We Worried About When I was Ten (fiction)

Robin Reif, To the Woman Whose Body I Washed (nonfiction, Off Assignment), Oranges (nonfiction, Missouri Review)

Simon Rich, Punishment (nonfiction)

Said Sayrafiezadeh, Nondisclosure Agreement (fiction)

Kathryn Schulz, How I Proposed to My Girlfriend: The Two Lives of a Wedding Ring (nonfiction)

Clare Sestanovich, Different People (fiction), Objects of Desire (fiction)

Akhil Sharma, If You Sing Like That For Me (fiction), Why I Hate My Best Short Story (nonfiction)

William Pei Shih, Happy Family (fiction)

Caroline Siegrist, Sinners List ( Chapter 16), Code Grey (Hippocampus)

Zadie Smith, Crazy They Call Me (creative non-fiction); Embassy of Cambodia (fiction), Philip Roth: A Writer All the Way Down(non-fiction)

Brandon Taylor, Prophets (fiction)

John Updyke, A&P (fiction)

Vauhini Vara, Ghosts (nonfiction). This American Life also did a piece about Vara. You can listen to the piece here.

Anthony Veasno So, Duplex (non-fiction)

Madjuri Vijay, You Are My Dear Friend (fiction)

Jesmyn Ward: On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic (nonfiction)

Amy Weiss-Meyer, Judy Blume Goes All the Way (nonfiction)

Colson Whitehead, The Gangsters (fiction)

E.B. White, Once More to the Lake (nonfiction)

Crystal Wilkinson, Endangered Species: Case 47401 (fiction)

Hilma Wolitzer, The Great Escape (fiction)