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Oh great, I would love to pick up more audiobooks, thanks for sharing these. Although you noted your distaste for podcasts, I would like to continue to recommend the New Yorker Fiction Podcast which has short stories read and discussed by a different author. You would almost think I get paid give ...

A light skim of his biography on Wikipedia clarified some things: Sound and the Fury appears to have been a major stylistic breakthrough. I got curious and started the Collected Short Stories and feeling a little mixed. He's a little fast and loose with the slurs which is really grating! I was ...

I have really enjoyed this recipe for red lentil soup that apparently is sourced from the New York Times but reposted on this site verbatim . It is as follows:

Ingredients

3 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon ground ...

I would appreciate insights and comments on sharing works in progress that anyone might have. If there's interest, I also invite sharing any in-progress creative works you are comfortable showing off: I would love seeing (or otherwise experiencing) what people are up to!

I frequently struggle ...

RE:onza , "MMAcevedo" reminds me of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" in Chiang's Exhalation but I guess it's just a bit of a shallow connection because they share some themes. In both of your selections the format (guide, wiki article) feels primary to the experience. In conversation, one of my ...

When thinking about this thread, I remember when I first read "The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off" in Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love . There's a bit of mapping the human drama into the environment but I just remember it for how kind of nauseatingly strange it was ...

I can see why it stuck with you, really striking in the way that you describe. I also see the musicality of it too, it feels like there's a conversation between the upper and lower register of the story as well as this kind push/pull between Smith in the present and his youth.

It immediately ...

I hadn't considered reading Faulkner, but after you mentioned having read one of his books I unsuccessfully poked around for an entry point into his works—maybe I could start with his Collected Stories ? I assumed, with no absolutely basis, that he was better in the long form.

Anything memorable ...

Would there be any interest in sharing short stories that you enjoyed, would like to discuss or are otherwise worth circulating?

I am a big fan of the format and if I am trying to recommend reading it is a smaller ask than a book. There's a kind of haughty Borges quote that I wouldn't agree with ...

I realize this is a minor point in the argument of the article, but I was curious about the remark on the aesthetic appeal of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 . I also remember some discussion in a stream (I also remember conversation on conventions for fog of war?). Would you be able to speak more about ...