She started the trip on a Sunday at nine in the morning. Here are ten that I enjoyed the most, in random order: ‘Dimension’ (Alice Munro, The New Yorker, 2006)Īlice Munro is one of my favourites, and I loved this one about a grieving woman who goes to an institution to meet her husband.ĭoree had to take three buses-one to Kincardine, where she waited for one to London, where she waited again, for the city bus out to the facility. James’s “The Murder of Santa Claus” from Lithub, I read 305 stories in 2017. Starting with Yiyun Li’s “On the Street Where You Live” from The New Yorker, to P. (This year I am working on a screenplay that’s a noirish police procedural in the Hindi language set in satellite city Noida, near New Delhi, the capital of India.) I end up reading almost every day, irrespective of whether I am able to write something or not. It’s a nightly thing: Before sitting down to write (I work on spec screenplays), I look around for a story, read it, then share it. Pravesh Bhardwaj is a longtime contributor - throughout the year he posts his favorite short stories, and then in January we’re lucky enough to get a list of his favorites to enjoy in the year ahead.įor many years now I’ve been posting short stories on Twitter. Author Han Kang (Roberto Ricciuti / Contributor / Getty Images)įor years, the #longreads hashtag on Twitter has been filled with great story recommendations from people around the world.
