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10 Stories that I enjoyed reading the most in 2017....
#Fiction #Longreads via @Longreads

longreads.com/2018/01/09/10-…
Mahasweta Devi's "Draupadi"
#Fiction #Longreads via @scroll_in #MahaswetaDevi
(Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak)
scroll.in/article/811931…
John Edgar Wideman's "Writing Teacher"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner : @NewYorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Lesley Nneka Arimah's "Who Will Greet You at Home"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @larimah
newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Boundary"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
I must add... Translated, from the Italian by the author. 😇#JhumpaLahiri
Ursula le Guin's "Nine Lives:
#Fiction #Longreads #UrsulaLeGuin RIP
baen.com/Chapters/97816…
Raymond Carver's "The Compartment"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
granta.com/the-compartmen…
Rachel Khong's "If A Tree Falls in a Forest"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BuzzFeedBooks : @rachelkhong
buzzfeed.com/rachelkhong/ne…
Ariel Dorfman's "It's a Small World"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BostonReview
bostonreview.net/fiction/ariel-…
Anne Carson's "1-866 MRTR"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BrickMAG
brickmag.com/1-866-mrtr/
Stephanie Powell Watts' "Do You Remember the Summer of Love?"
#Fiction #Longreads via @byshondaland
shondaland.com/inspire/books/…
Tanuj Solanki's "I Had a Muslim Friend Once"
#Fiction #Longreads #Novella via @CatapultStory : @tanujsolanki
catapult.co/stories/i-had-…
Lara Vapnyar's "Virtual Grave"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VQR
vqronline.org/virtual-grave
Ottessa Moshfegh's "The Pornographers"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VICE
vice.com/en_us/article/…
Alexendra Chang's "To Get Rich is Glorious"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Zoetrope_Mag
(Winner of 2017 Zoetrope : All Story Fiction Competition)
all-story.com/issues.cgi?act…
Scott O' Connor's "Soldiers"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub : @scottsoconnor
lithub.com/soldiers/
Akhil Sharma's "Love in Varanasi"
#Fiction #Longreads via @livemint
livemint.com/Leisure/nbo69j…
Lucy Ives's "Ersatz Panda"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
granta.com/ersatz-panda/
Mary Gaitskill's "The Other Place"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @pageturner
newyorker.com/magazine/2011/…
Lynne Sharon Schwartz's "Her Native Tongue"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub
lithub.com/her-native-ton…
Deb Olin Unferth's "Things That Went Wrong Thus Far"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BostonReview
bostonreview.net/deb-olin-unfer…
Zsuzsa Selyem's "That Little Strip of Sunshine"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(TRanslated from Hungarian by Jim Tucker & Erika Mihalycsa)
wordswithoutborders.org/article/march-…
Wells Tower's "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
granta.com/everything-rav…
Joseph O' Neill's "The Poltroon Husband"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Death Constant Beyond Love"
#Fiction #Longreads #GabrielGarciaMarquez #Repost
blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/greatworks540s…
Domenico Starnone's "Trick"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
(Translated from the Italian by #JhumpaLahiri)
electricliterature.com/jhumpa-lahiri-…
Jill Talbot's "Railroad Blues"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Little_Fiction : @jilltalbot
littlefiction.com/beta/RailroadB…
Bret Anthony Johnston's "To a Good Home"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VQR
vqronline.org/good-home
Tsutsui Vasutaka's "The Last of the Smokers"
#Fiction #Longreads via @kyotojournal : (Reco by @Shubhlime)
(Translated from Japanese by Andrew Rankin)
kyotojournal.org/the-journal/in…
Ryu Murakami's "In the Bar"
#Fiction #Longreads
(translated from Japanese by Ty Christian)
mothershabooboo.com/translation/in…
Courtney Zoffness's "Peanuts aren't Nuts"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ALitReview
(Short-listed for 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award)
americanliteraryreview.com/courtney-zoffn…
Ramona Ausubel's "Template for a Proclamation to Save the Species"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
electricliterature.com/the-mayor-who-…
Koga Saburo's "The Spider"
#Fiction #Longreads via @CrimeReads
(translated from Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong and John Pugmire)
crimereads.com/the-spider/
Benito Vergera's "A Silver of Blue Ocean"
#Fiction #Longreads via @AtticusReview
atticusreview.org/sliver-blue-oc…
Sam Allingham's "The Intermediate Class"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner : @SamSamAllingham
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Alan Hollinghurst's "Highlights"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
granta.com/highlights/
Laura van den Berg's "Up High in the Air"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BostonReview : @Lvandenberg
bostonreview.net/laura-van-den-…
Camille Bordas's "The State of Nature"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner : @NewYorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Sara Gallardo's "Things Happen"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(Translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira)
wordswithoutborders.org/article/april-…
Hi! @jess_sequeira Is this Short-story translated by you?
wordswithoutborders.org/article/april-…
Sonia Feigelson's "Like My Tattoo Says"
#Fiction #Longreads via @puertomag : @FeigelsonSonia
puertodelsol.org/single-post/20…
Joyce Carol Oates's "Good News"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ACLU : @JoyceCarolOates
aclu.org/blog/free-spee…
Travis Dahlke's "These Are My Dress Clothes"
#Fiction #Longreads via @longleafreview
longleafreview.com/dahlke/
Keith Gessen's "How Did We Come to Know You?"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner : @NYerFiction : @keithgessen
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Banana Yoshimoto's "A Strange Tale From Down by the River"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
(Translated from Japanese by Ann Sherif)
electricliterature.com/love-after-the…
Emma Copley Eisenberg's "Fat Swim"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VQR : @emmaeisenberg
vqronline.org/fiction/2018/0…
Bob Johnson's "The Samaritan"
#Fiction #Longreads via @tbr
barcelonareview.com/91/e_bj.html
Michael Lowenthal's "Thieves"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GuernicaMag
guernicamag.com/thieves/
Haruki Murakami's "The Folklore of Our Times"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @pageturner
(Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum)
newyorker.com/magazine/2003/…
Andrew Sean Greer's "Darkness"
#Fiction #Longreads via @agreer
(Andrew Sean Greer's Novel LESS has won 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
static1.squarespace.com/static/517479f…
Tess Allard's "The World Holds What It Remembers Most"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit : @astralsled
electricliterature.com/biking-through…
Majidah al-Outoum's "The Village Idiot"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub : @commonmag
(Translated by Alice Guthrie)
lithub.com/the-village-id…
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's "Our Beans Grow Fat Upon the Storm"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
electricliterature.com/lullabies-for-…
Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's "Devdas"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(Translated from Bengali by @arunava ) #Excerpt
wordswithoutborders.org/article/decemb…
#Devdas was written in 1917 by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It is arguably the most adapted story of Indian Cinema... Numerous versions of this classic (and many more films which take-off from the material) have been made... latest being Sudhir Mishra's #Daasdev.
Jamie Quatro's "Wave Function Collapse"
#Fiction #Longreads via @oxfordamerican : @jamiequatro
oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/…
Nick Fuller Googins's "Motivated Individuals"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub : @southern_review : @fullergo
lithub.com/motivated-indi…
Juan Villoro's "Holding Pattern"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders : @JuanVilloro56
(Translated from Spanish by Lisa M Dillman)
wordswithoutborders.org/article/holdin…
Susan Straight's "The Perseids"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
granta.com/the-perseids/
Edwidge Danticat's "Without Indspection"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @NYerFiction : @pageturner newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Porochista Khakpour's "Pariah and I"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BennReview : @PKhakpour
benningtonreview.org/khakpour
Michael Chabon's "Switzerland Today"
#Fiction #Longreads via @tabletmag
tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-an…
Gabrille Hovendon's "Bonnie, Patty, Kid Glove, Ma"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Little_Fiction
littlefiction.com/beta/BonniePat…
Oops... It should be Gabrielle... Apologies.
Michael Croley's "Larger than the Sea"
#Fiction #Longreads via @CatapultStory : @MJ_Croley
catapult.co/stories/larger…
Saadat Hasan Manto's "Ten Rupees" and "Mozelle"
#Fiction #Longreads #Manto
(Translated from Urdu by Matt Reeck & Aftab Ahmed)
intranslation.brooklynrail.org/urdu/ten-rupee…
सआदत हसन मंटो की कहानी "दस रूपये"
rekhta.org/manto/das-rupe… via @Rekhta #Manto
William Trevor's "Taking Mr. Ravenswood"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub
lithub.com/taking-mr-rave…
Thomas Bolt's "Inversion of Marcia"
#Fiction #Longreads via @nplusonemag : @ThomasBolt
(Winner of the 2018 O. Henry Prize for Best Short Stories)
nplusonemag.com/issue-27/ficti…
Jamil Kochai's "Nights in Logar"
#Fiction #Longreads via @APublicSpace
(Winner of the 2018 O. Henry Prize for Best Short Stories)
apublicspace.org/magazine/detai…
Youmna Chlala's "Nyla"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub
(Winner of the 2018 O. Henry Prize for Best Short Stories)
lithub.com/nayla/
Thomas Wolfe's "O, the Big-Time Game-Time Show-Time Roll"
#Fiction #Longreads via @esquire #ThomasWolfeRIP
(Out of Paywall for limited period)
classic.esquire.com/o-the-big-time…
Ben Marcus's "Stay Down and Take It."
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Olga Tokarczuk's "The Knight"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(Translated from Polish by @jenniferlcroft )
[Winners of International Man Booker Prize 2018 for FLIGHTS]
wordswithoutborders.org/article/the-kn…
Rabindranath Tagore's "Kabuliwala"
#Fiction #Longreads
angelfire.com/ny4/rubel/kabu…
Couldn't find Translator's name....
रबिन्द्रनाथ टैगोर की कहानी "काबुलीवाला"
bharatdarshan.co.nz/magazine/liter…
Mark Jude Poirier's "How We Eat"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub : @markjudep
[Winner of 2018 O. Henry Prize for Best Short-Stories]
lithub.com/how-we-eat/
Karen Russell's "Orange World"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Lu Yang's "Silver Tiger"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
(Translated from the Chinese by Eric Abrahamsen}
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Abilio Estevez's "The Lagoon"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(translated from Spanish by David Lisenby)
wordswithoutborders.org/article/june-2…
Kamila Shamsie's "Our Dead, Your Dead"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GuardianBooks : @kamilashamsie
(Kamila Shamsie's HOME FIRE won 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction)

theguardian.com/books/2011/sep…
Ursula K Le Guin's "Pity and Shame"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Tin_House : @ursulaleguin

tinhouse.com/pity-and-shame/
Katherine Mansfield's "A Dill Pickle"
#Fiction #Longreads via @berfrois
berfrois.com/2018/05/a-dill…
Carmen Maria Machado's "Mary When You Follow Her"
#Fiction via @VQR : @carmenmmachado
vqronline.org/fiction/2018/0…

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