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        Joyce Carol Oates’s Book Bag: 5 Short Story Collections

        Black Dahlia

        The master of the American Gothic returns with Black Dahlia & White Rose, a new book of tales that surveys how America reflects the dark ripples of its people’s souls. She's also edited a new edition of The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. She picks five short-story collections that have inspired her.

        Joyce Carol Oates

        Updated Jul. 14, 2017 12:08AM ET / Published Sep. 11, 2012 4:45AM ET 

        A novel is an entire world, a short story is a glimpse into a world. But in the very best short stories a glimpse can be a totally memorable experience—in fact, magical.

        The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks

        While Banks's ambitious novels are critiques of class in America, his short stories often take for their subject American masculinity, about which the writer is both enormously entertaining and relentless.

        The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

        Seemingly "Minimalist"—some are as short as three pages—these stories suggest the delicacy and beauty of Monarch butterflies. But one should remember—Monarch butterflies are long-distance travelers, possessed of extraordinary strength and resilience.

        Stories From Another World By Sheila Kohler

        Literally, some of these stories from a South African–born writer are from "another world"—South Africa, Italy, France. Less literally, they are set in the labyrinthine world within.

        The Identity Club: New and Selected Stories By Richard Burgin

        What Edgar Allan Poe did for the psychotic soul, Burgin does for the deeply neurotic who pass among us disguised as so seemingly "normal" we may mistake them for ourselves.

        The Age of GriefBy Jane Smiley

        Smiley is excruciating in her examination of a disintegrating marriage in which a husband and a wife so fear intimate knowledge of each other, they find that it might be easier to break up than to risk vulnerability.

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