Survey 4 August 30, 2026
What Ten Writers Left Out of the American Short Story
Every book from this episode, with authors and years.
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The books
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Edgar Allan Poe, 1840
- Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson, 1919
- In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway, 1925
- Spunk: Selected Stories, Zora Neale Hurston, 1985
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor, 1955
- Gorilla, My Love, Toni Cade Bambara, 1972
- Cathedral, Raymond Carver, 1983
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999
- Tenth of December, George Saunders, 2013
- The Visiting Privilege, Joy Williams, 2015