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Dan Chaon
is the author of FITTING ENDS AND OTHER STORIES and AMONG THE MISSING. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories 1996 and The Pushcart Prize 2000, as well as in Story, Ploughshares, and other magazines. He lives in Ohio and is working on his first novel.
AMONG THE MISSING
is a collection of twelve stories --- hailed as "brilliant" by the Cleveland Plain Dealer --- of men and women trying to discern what has brought them so far outside the American Dream.
Dan Chaon's Summer Reading List
THE FREDDIE STORIES
by Lynda Barry
After reading her incredible novel, CRUDDY, I'm in love with this woman and her work, which is bittersweet, moving and hilarious; Barry is a "cartoonist," but what she's doing in her books is more like literature than most literary fiction.
DREAM HOUSE
by Barbara Bean
This is a new book of short stories that has come highly recommended, and unfortunately may pass below the radar of casual book lovers; it's published by the University of Colorado Press's Series in Contemporary Fiction.
THE BOSTONS
by Carolyn Cooke
I loved her story "Bob Darling" in a recent Best American Story collection, so I'm looking forward to reading her book.
SISTER NOON
by Karen Joy Fowler
Fowler is a wonderful writer, and I'm excited to see her return to turn of the century San Francisco, the territory of her amazing Sarah Canary.
DRINKING WITH THE COOK
by Laura Furman
This is Furman's first collection since 1980's "The Glass House," and is getting lots of attention for this interesting and too-long neglected writer.
WHOSE SONG AND OTHER STORIES
by Thomas Glave
I'm reading this for the second time --- he writes sentences that will blow the top of your head off!
YELLOW: Stories
by Don Lee
As editor of the journal Ploughshares, Lee is a big player in literary circles, and I'm curious to find out what kind of writing he himself does!
TRAILER GIRL: And Other Stories
by
Terese Svoboda
Poet/fiction writer Svoboda has a dark, dense, oddly funny sensibility, and I'm really excited about her work.
THE COLLECTED STORIES
by William Trevor
At nearly 1300 pages, this book could be a story writer's Bible; an endlessly brilliant and inspiring trip through Trevor's humane and surprising visions of what people are like --- this is the book I'd take with me to a desert island, since the pleasures of reading and re-reading these stories seems limitless.
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