Wednesday, December 13, 2023

365 stories

 Ray Newman, a writer in Bristol, started 2023 by planning to read 365 short stories.

He did it, and you can see which stories he liked most at A Personal Anthology, a site that asks invited guest to talk about 12 of their favorite stories. 

Newman said some interesting things about his journey. I liked these two points, especially:

• A story a day sounds like a lot. But if you assume that the average short story collection has 10 pieces, that’s 37 books, which somehow sounds better.

• “The time was easy to find: I just spent less time refreshing Twitter, and more time with a paperback in my hand.”

I’m thinking about what I want to read in 2024. More stories would be good.

• Source: https://apersonalanthology.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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