HeyJaredA Personal Anthology
A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories
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A Personal Anthology of Debuts, by David Collard (opens the original)
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In a slight departure from tradition, Jonathan has allowed me to submit a selection of short stories that mark their author’s first appearance in print, presented (more or less) in chronological order. This may be of interest to those who, like me, have a predisposition to completeness, at least when it comes to the work of the writers I most admire. I wanted to include Jonathan himself, whose inclusion in A Personal Anthology is long overdue. Alas his fiction debut ‘Nightswimming’, which appear
A Personal Anthology, by Rachel Malik (opens the original)
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‘Theme of the Traitor and Hero’ by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anthony Kerrigan (First published in Spanish in Sur in February 1944. Collected in English in Fictions, Jupiter Books, 1965. Also available, translated by Andrew Hurley, in Collected Fictions, Penguin, 1999)A story about reputation, the relations between truth and spectacle and the prison space of the ideal reader, story and telling are both so daring you gasp with delight. Borges is convinced that a short stor
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