Always Plenty More Hogs Going In, Coming Out
A summer internship at a slaughterhouse maps onto a stranger's funeral in "Meat" by Leah Hampton
Aug 21 - Leah Hampton
RR Issue No. 379 
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Recommended Reading is your ultimate source for the best in contemporary fiction, including short stories and novel excerpts from today’s most dynamic voices.
Aimee Bender Recommends “Guts” by Kimberly King Parsons
A woman dates a med student and finds new language for her body in the story from debut collection 'Black Light'
Aug 14 - Kimberly King Parsons
RR Issue No. 378 
The Beginning of Our Quest for Your Mother’s Missing Body
An excerpt from 'The Remainder' by Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated by Sophie Hughes
Aug 7 - Alia Trabucco Zerán
RR Issue No. 377 
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Do You Want to Be Her or Do You Want to Fuck Her?
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Living Alone When Your Stomach is Literally in a Knot
An excerpt from 'The Book of X' by Sarah Rose Etter recommended by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Jul 31 - Sarah Rose Etter
RR Issue No. 376 
Where Is Revolution City?
Banipal Magazine recommends a story about a woman coming home to a place that has forgotten itself, by Hadiya Hussein
Jul 24 - Hadiya Hussein
RR Issue No. 375 
A Good Samaritan and a Giant Meet on the Beach
"The First Day of What Remained for Tedman Ward" by Nell Hanley, about a moment of reprieve for two lonely middle-aged men
Jul 17 - Nell Hanley
RR Issue No. 374 
From Homesteader Wolf to Public School Boy
An excerpt from 'Stay and Fight' by Madeline ffitch, recommended by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
Jul 10 - Madeline ffitch
RR Issue No. 373 
Why Do They Think They Know Me?
A story about the loneliness of desire from James Alan McPherson’s 1968 debut collection
Jul 3 - James Alan McPherson
RR Issue No. 372 
Everything I Don’t Remember About the Day My Father Died
A woman returns to her Mississippi Delta hometown in this excerpt from 'The Gone Dead' by Chanelle Benz
Jun 26 - Chanelle Benz
RR Issue No. 371 
Possible Disruptions on the Occassion of My High School Graduation
In "Essay #2" by Jackson Tobin, identical twin sisters have different choices for the future
Jun 19 - Jackson Tobin
RR Issue No. 370 
Loving Your Parents Is a Trap
"Model Boy," excerpted from the novel 'The History of Living Forever' by Jake Wolff
Jun 12 - Jake Wolff
RR Issue No. 369 
Lenin’s Corpse Won’t Look This Good Forever
"Preservation" by Maria Lioutaia, from the penultimate issue of Tin House magazine
Jun 5 - Maria Lioutaia
RR Issue No. 368 
