Welcome to my list of short stories for Deal Me In 2015! 52 cards, 52 weeks and 52 stories randomly read!
A | Spades | Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving | 1819 |
K | Spades | The Wives of the Dead | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1832 |
Q | Spades | The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids | Herman Melville | 1855 |
J | Spades | The Brothers | Louisa May Alcott | 1863 |
10 | Spades | The Ghost in the Mill | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1872 |
9 | Spades | Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup | Mark Twain | 1875 |
8 | Spades | A Cloud on the Mountain | Mary Hallock Foote | 1885 |
7 | Spades | A White Heron | Sarah Orne Jewett | 1886 |
6 | Spades | Old Woman Magoun | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | 1891 |
5 | Spades | The Journey | Edith Wharton | 1899 |
4 | Spades | The Storm | Kate Chopin | 1900 |
3 | Spades | Paul’s Case | Willa Cather | 1905 |
A | Clubs | Koolau the Leper | Jack London | 1909 |
K | Clubs | Little Selves | Mary Lerner | 1915 |
Q | Clubs | The Strength of God | Sherwood Anderson | 1919 |
J | Clubs | The Golden Honeymoon | Ring Lardner | 1921 |
10 | Clubs | Wild Plums | Grace Stone Coates | 1928 |
9 | Clubs | Theft | Katherine Anne Porter | 1929 |
8 | Clubs | Here We Are | Dorothy Parker | 1930 |
7 | Clubs | God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen | Ernest Hemingway | 1933 |
6 | Clubs | Red-Headed Baby | Langston Hughes | 1934 |
5 | Clubs | An Alcoholic Case | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1937 |
4 | Clubs | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber | 1939 |
3 | Clubs | The Man Who Was Almost A Man | Richard Wright | 1940 |
A | Hearts | The Worn Path | Eudora Welty | 1940 |
K | Hearts | The Second Tree From the Corner | E. B. White | 1947 |
Q | Hearts | Miami-New York | Martha Gellhorn | 1947 |
J | Hearts | Death of a Favorite | J. F. Powers | 1950 |
10 | Hearts | The Country Husband | John Cheever | 1955 |
9 | Hearts | Tomorrow and Tomorrow And So Forth | John Updike | 1955 |
8 | Hearts | Greenleaf | Flannery O’Connor | 1956 |
7 | Hearts | Harrison Bergeron | Kurt Vonnegut | 1961 |
6 | Hearts | The German Refugee | Bernard Malamud | 1963 |
5 | Hearts | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | Joyce Carol Oates | 1966 |
4 | Hearts | The Key | Isaac Beshevis Singer | 1971 |
3 | Hearts | A City of Churches | Donald Barthelme | 1972 |
A | Diamonds | A Silver Dish | Saul Bellow | 1978 |
K | Diamonds | The Shawl | Cynthia Ozick | 1980 |
Q | Diamonds | Today Will Be A Quiet Day | Amy Hempel | 1985 |
J | Diamonds | Janus | Ann Beattie | 1985 |
10 | Diamonds | Fleur | Louise Erdrich | 1986 |
9 | Diamonds | You’re Ugly, Too | Lorrie Moore | 1989 |
8 | Diamonds | The Discovery of Kentucky | Wendell Berry | 1991 |
7 | Diamonds | In The Gloaming | Alice Elliot Dark | 1993 |
6 | Diamonds | The Half-Skinned Steer | Annie Proulx | 1997 |
5 | Diamonds | Hell-Heaven | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2004 |
4 | Diamonds | Good People | David Foster Wallace | 2007 |
3 | Diamonds | Mercy | Pinckney Benedict | 2010 |
2 | Spades | WILD: Phantoms | Steven Millhauser | 2011 |
2 | Clubs | WILD: Miracle Polish | Steven Millhauser | 2011 |
2 | Hearts | WILD A Voice in the Night | Steven Millhauser | 2012 |
2 | Diamonds | WILD: The Wizard of West Orange | Steven Millhauser | 2007 |
Hi Dale,
Seeing your list has got me excited to work on my own. I think I’m going to go 50-50, with 2 suits dedicated to “local” authors and 2 to others. I have a suit prepared of “New Yorker Stories” where all the stories have been published in the New Yorker, and it is a hodgepodge of (great) authors. I may still dedicate spades to darker stories, since I like them, but I’m running out of room in my deck!
I’ve actually read 15 of yours, 6 of which were in four years of my prior DMI rosters.
I’m also still working on a “flyer-type” Deal Me In 2015! document that hopefully will inspire others to participate.
I look forward to another year of reading your impressions from your short story reading!
-Jay
Thanks, Jay! I look forward to your list and your posts, also. It’s been a great and successful idea! Like I’ve said before, it’s the one challenge that is ideal for me and my schedule.
WOW! This is quite a list! Looking forward to your posts.
I love the huge sweep of (neatly- and delighfully-ordered) years as one reads down your list of stories. Best of luck!