• To keep a short story long [May Reading Challenge]

  • May 1 2025
  • Length: 29 mins
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To keep a short story long [May Reading Challenge]

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  • Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat about our May reading challenge, Short Story Collections. We discuss life, the universe, and of course baseball. Let us know how many letters a woodchuck could write if a woodchuck could write letters.

    Books we discuss include:

    • “Haunted Maine” by Charles Stanfield
    • “Something Rich and Strange” by Ron Rash (“Three AM and the Stars Were Out”)
    • “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury (“The Veldt”)
    • “The Amazing Mr. Morality” by Jacob M. Appel (“Burrowing in Exile”)
    • “One More Thing” by B.J. Novak (“The Rematch”)
    • “Classic American Short Stories” by Various (“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain)
    • “The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories” by Penelope Lively
    • “Life Ceremony” by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (“The Hatchling”)
    • “Uncommon Type” by Tom Hanks
    • “Normal Rules Don’t Apply” by Kate Atkinson (“The Void”)
    • “When a Stranger Comes To Town” Anthology by Mystery Writers of America (“A Six Letter Word for Neighbor” by Lisa Unger)
    • “Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks” by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Alexander Nabaum
    • “The Brooklyn Nine” by Alan Gratz
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