Dad Died and Everyone Is Buying Me Shots
An excerpt from NO SUCH THING AS MONDAY by Siân Hughes, recommended by Stephen McCauley
Nov 9 - Siân Hughes
RR Issue No. 755
Lit Mags
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading is your ultimate source for the best in contemporary fiction, including short stories and novel excerpts from today’s most dynamic voices.
I Might Sleep With My Neighbor, If She Isn’t My Half-Sister
An excerpt from THIS VITAL ABSENCE by Sophia Veltfort, recommended by Rachel Cohen
Nov 2 - Sophia Veltfort
RR Issue No. 754
I Will Never Be the Pianist My Father Loves Best
An excerpt from HUDSON by Hernán Ronsino, translated and recommended by Mallory Craig-Kuhn
Oct 26 - Hernán Ronsino
RR Issue No. 753
POPULAR in RECOMMENDED READING
Dad Died and Everyone Is Buying Me Shots
Nov 9 - Siân Hughes
Bettering Myself
May 15 - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Great Silence
Oct 12 - Ted Chiang
The Knowers
Sep 11 - Helen Phillips
More Issues
I Cannot Make My Son Purer Than This Sickening World
“Everything” from THE COMPLETE STORIES by Ingeborg Bachmann, co-translated and recommended by Philip Boehm
Oct 19 - Ingeborg Bachmann
RR Issue No. 752
A Luxury Apartment in Manhattan Is No Safer Than a Kitchen in East Oakland
“Kitchen Barbarians” by Jason Kwon, recommended by Preety Sidhu for Electric Literature
Oct 12 - Jason Kwon
RR Issue No. 751
The Hottest Colony in the Empire Is Literal Hell
An excerpt from NOTES ON A COLONIAL SITUATION IN HELL by Robert G Penner, recommended by Jeremy M Davies
Oct 5 - Robert G Penner
RR Issue No. 750
My Aunt’s Collection of Miniature Men Is Probably Not Harmless
“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson
Sep 28 - Antoine Volodine
RR Issue No. 749
He’s Less Obnoxious as a Falcon Than a Monk
“Zulum” from INSHALLAH, MADONNA, INSHALLAH by Miljenko Jergović, co-translated and recommended by Ellen Elias-Bursać
Sep 21 - Miljenko Jergović
RR Issue No. 748
This Anonymous Caller Is Not a Metaphor for Her Despair
“Going Up” from OUT OF BODY by Chris Vanjonack, recommended by Weston Morrow
Sep 14 - Chris Vanjonack
RR Issue No. 747
The Barn Manager’s Grief Is Hotter Than Foreplay
An excerpt from THE LONELY GIRL'S VEGETABLE PATCH by Genevieve Plunkett, recommended by Kimberly King Parsons
Sep 7 - Genevieve Plunkett
RR Issue No. 746
His Daughter’s Poetry Is His Midlife Crisis
“Phillip Whitney” by Anna Reeser, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature
Aug 31 - Anna Reeser
RR Issue No. 745
Wealth Can’t Absolve the Families of the Disappeared
“Already Gone” from THOSE WHO VANISH by Patricia Grace King, recommended by Ben Davies Crisp
Aug 24 - Patricia Grace King
RR Issue No. 744
