Elizabeth McCracken’s favourite short story
- 1st April 2021
Elizabeth McCracken on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley
Some of our great writers – from Elizabeth Strout to Mark Haddon – nominate what their favourite short story is, and tell us, in this intimate series, why they love it so much. You can watch the series here, with new choices every week
Elizabeth McCracken on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley
Kathleen Alcott on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – Twenty Minutes, by James Salter
The author Rebecca F John on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – The Ocularist's Wife by Clare Wigfall
Adam Marek on the short story he loves and thinks you will, too – Ava Wrestles the Alligator, by Karen Russell
Leone Ross on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – Fern by Jean Toomer
The Irish author Paul McVeigh on the short story he loves and thinks you will, too – The Tenth of December, by George Saunders
The Trinidadian author Claire Adam on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – Brackley and the Bed, by Samuel Selvon
The American author Phil Klay on the short story he loves and thinks you will, too – Night Before Battle, by Ernest Hemingway
The British author Alice Ash on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – Waxy, by Camilla Grudova
The Irish author Niamh Campbell on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – The Dead, by James Joyce