best/favorite short story writers

>>8520683
Joyce
Chekhov
Cheever
Borges

>>8520683
>best/favorite
Kafka/Munro

>>8520683
W. Somerset Maugham is the all time king of the short story.

>>8520683
kafka
salinger

>>8520683
Hemmingway
Irwin Shaw
Harold Brodkey
Raymond Carver
Breece DJ Pancake

Flannery O'Connor

https://ayersamazingwiki.wikispaces.com/file/view/Good+Country+People+Full+Text.pdf

Guy de Maupassant
Juan Carlos Onetti

Harlan Ellison and Philip K. Dick (for SF).

uhhhhhhhhhh
Best is definitely Borges no matter who you are

Favorites not named Borges are probably Harlan Ellison, R. A. Lafferty, Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Chekhov, some of Lovecraft Melville Twain and Poe.

>>8522345
>Guy de Maupassant

This guy gets it

Chekhov and Borges.

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Bukowski

>>8522513
>Best is definitely Borges no matter who you are
He very rarely explored the psychology of his characters like many other short story writers do, so I wouldn't say he is the absolute best, just one of the best.

Ernest Hemingway and Kjell Askildsen

Chekhov and Kafka hands down.

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Carver
DFW
Borges
Joyce
Hemingway
Denis Johnson
Byatt
Munro
James Baldwin

Borges
Kyle Minor

>>8523265
Same guy here. If you guys haven't read Kyle Minor, do so. He has two short story collections out (the latest came out in 2014). I think/hope he's working on a novel. He's going to be meme-status after it drops. Praying Drunk is where I started. Hope someone on kit has read/will read him. Praying Drunk can be found online.

Flannery O'Connor
Gene Wolfe
James Joyce
Anton Chekhov
Nikolai Gogol

These are my favourites.

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I was guiled into buying this. Do not repeat my mistake. LEARN FROM ME

>>8523303
Ayyy, I "stole" this from a hostel library because it seemed interesting. Threw it out of a bus because, indeed, most of them sucked. Not a single Great one among them.

>>8521930
>Pancake

I cant take it seriously but i hear much about their work. Any good?

not the guy who posted, but I've only read his s.story "hollow" and it was one of the best reads of the year

Brautigan

>>8520683
Hans Christian Andersen
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>>8520683
All the bests~ have been mentioned but my personal favourite is Katherine Mansfield.

>>8523369
D

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P A N C A K E

>>8523400
Mine too. I love his longer stuff as well.

>>8523303
This was one of the first books I read in English. I remember wrote a few great ones. Then again, I hadn't really read that much then.

chekhov and carver

>>8525303
*quite a few great ones