Short Stories

This is going to be a bare-bones post tonight--I'll try to fill in links and such later--but my own work-in-progress has been neglected since before Christmas and I promised myself I'd get to it today. Which has now become tonight.

Here's what I have for short story collections, recommended from various sources. If you like to read short stories, check out Rob's 100 Shots of Short challenge--"no time limit, no specific titles, just the goal of reading 100 self-picked short stories as and when possible."

Edward P. Jones (African American)
All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006)
Lost in the City (2004, shortlisted for National Book Award)

Junot Diaz (Dominican-American author of the highly acclaimed The Brief History of Oscar Wao) Drown

Nam Le (Born in Vietnam, splits his time between the U.S. and Australia )
The Boat
"It is uncommon that a writer's first book can be described as masterful, especially when the author is not yet 30 years old. But 'The Boat,' an extraordinary collection of seven short stories by Nam Le... is truly that kind of book. Nam Le... has created a collection that is as complex in its depth as it is accessible in its prose." (Jim Carmin, reviewing for The Oregonian)

Jhumpa Lahiri (American of Bengali-Indian descent)
Unaccustomed Earth
Interpreter of Maladies

Sherman Alexie (Native American)
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (and more)

Indu Sundaresan (Indian, now lives in America)
In the Convent of Little Flowers

Colin Channer (Jamaican American)
Passing Through
A sexy, witty collection of connected stories set on San Carlos, a tiny island with an old volcano in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning the early 1900s up to modern times, the stories trace the intersecting lives of travelers, expatriates, and local folks in ways that shock, illuminate, and reveal ... the diverse mix of characters are united by the universal search for love and understanding—a challenge on an island simmering with issues of politics, power, and race.