3.11.10: More Recent Short Stories
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Short Stories
Use the links below to access more recent short stories, from 1953 up through the 21st century.
Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (1953)
James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" (1954)
Gabriel García Márquez's "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" (1955)
Louise Erdrich's "Matchimanito" (1988)
Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" (1990)
Denis Johnson's "Emergency" (1992)
Tobias Woolf's "Bullet in the Brain" (1995)
Jhumpa Lahiri's "A Temporary Matter" (1999)
David Foster Wallace's "Good People" (2007)
Margaret Atwood's "Lusus Naturae" (2014)
Cristina Henriquez's "Everything is Far From Here" (2017)
Tommy Orange's "The State" (2018)
Contributors
- Adapted from Writing the Nation: A Concise History of American Literature: 1865-current by Burk, Bleil and Cofer, Source: University of Georgia Press, CC-BY-SA