This week, Joseph and Amanda talk about some of their favourite short story collections - ranging from canonical gems to new voices - plus, as always, they talk about what they’ve been reading recently and discuss what they’re excited to read next.
(1:24) Bookish news
(2:20) Birchbark Books
(2:27) Inkwell Books
(2:40) Red Balloon Books
(2:56) Excelsior Bay Books / Milkweed Books / Black Garnet Books
(3:08) Shop Minneapolis bookshops from anywhere at Bookstore.org and libro.fm
(4:31) Standwithminnesota.com
(5:36) The TS Eliot Prize
(6:03) Wellwater by Karen Solie
(7:17) Recent Reads
(7:27) Buckeye by Patrick Ryan @patrickryanyc
(12:40) A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell
(17:14) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
(18:17) Short Story Collections
(18:26) Joseph's Short Story Quiz
(25:38) Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny @katherineheiny
(30:59) Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
(34:32) Mslexia
(34:45) Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer @zzpacker56
(40:42) In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
(46:37) The Latehomecomer: Essential Stories by Mavis Gallant
(51:18) Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed by Margaret Atwood and others @therealmargaretatwood
(52:21) Stories of Place:///zinc.level.blindfold edited by Niamh McAnally @niamh_mcanally
(53:00) The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda @matsudaoko
(56:40) You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi @lilianacolanzi, translated by Chris Andrews
(58:06) Selected stories by Nikolai Gogol
(59:19) Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn
(59:59) What We’re Reading Next
(1:00:13) I’m Glad My Mother Died by Jennette McCurdy @jennettemccurdy
(1:00:50) Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
(1:01:19) Palaver by Bryan Washington @bry.washing
Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio
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