Anyway, regarding short stories- HI! I’m the old lady of the Giant- I have read everything that Alice Munro has written. So kill me. I love her. She has this one story from the POV of a mother whose husband kills their two kids and she goes to jail to visit him against her social workers advice- I’m telling you, the complexity of humanity. She gets it.

I’ve written here on Flannery O’Connor. Did you read that thing on Parker’s Back I wrote?

I like “upon the sweeping flood” and “where have are you going , where have you been?” and others by Joyce Carol Oates.

Wait, those are some old timers. Do you want new people? Sorry!

Have you read Alicia Erian? The Brutal Langauge of Love? Very, very good book if you like sexually explicit and emotionally intense stuff. She wrote “Towelhead”- she’s half Middle Eastern- it was made into a movie that I have not seen. I just know her stories.

OK.I’m not so helpful. I mostly sit around reading Tolstoy’s religious tracks and Evolutionary Theory from the turn of the century (recently). I’m also reading a collection of stories by some guy called Knockemstiff (the town where he grew up in Ohio) – Parker? It’s fantastic.