Underground Women, by Jesse Lee Kercheval

In the author’s note at the end of Underground Women, Jesse Lee Kercheval explains that some of the stories in …

Metropolitan Stories, by Christine Coulson

All of the linked stories in Christine Coulson’s Metropolitan Stories are set at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring …

Odsburg, by Matt Tompkins

Years and years ago, when I was in high school, my English teacher assigned Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson. After …

Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart, by Kimberly Lojewski

I requested this book from Edelweiss purely because of the name. How could I pass up something with the title …

A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, by Ambai

Reading Ambai’s* collection, A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, is like being a tourist in the lives of …

The World Doesn’t Require You, by Rion Amilcar Scott

Rion Amilcar Scott’s story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, is one of the most astonishingly smart collections I’ve ever …

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, by Various Authors

Edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, the collection of stories in A Thousand Beginnings and Endings contains fifteen stories …

The Archive of Alternate Endings, by Lindsey Drager

I don’t know if other readers do this, but I often create a mental tapestry of plots for the books …

Snow in May, by Kseniya Melnik

It’s a little black-hearted, but I suspect that we read stories about hard luck and bad decisions because they remind …

Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich

Trigger warning for rape and suicide. I am continuing my out-of-order dive into Louise Erdrich’s collections of interlinked stories featuring characters on an …