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The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick

We Live In Water by Jess Walter

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton

Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman

Elementals by AS Byatt

December 31, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

New York Stories – 4/5 Stars I read Elizabeth Hardwick’s collected essays earlier this year. I also read her novel Sleepless Nights last year. This is a collection of stories that encompasses about 45-50 years worth of short stories edited and selected by Darryl Pinckney, another novelist and critic who also famously worked with and was friends with Hardwick. I read these stories in a variety of orders, and since they are not part of an intentional collection this blending and mixing up of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: as byatt, chuck palahniuk, elementals, elizabeth hardwick, goodbye mr chips, james hilton, Jess Walter, lyra's oxford, Philip Pullman, snuff, survivor, the new york stories of elizabeth hardwick, we live in water

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:491 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: as byatt, chuck palahniuk, elementals, elizabeth hardwick, goodbye mr chips, james hilton, Jess Walter, lyra's oxford, Philip Pullman, snuff, survivor, the new york stories of elizabeth hardwick, we live in water ·
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