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The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker
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"The way that Dorothy Parker navigates her own darkness with wit, and her commentary on what it was like to be a woman in America in the 1920s is wildly compelling. The amazing thing about this book is you can open to any page and read a great short story. Parker makes for a wonderful author to read aloud to your lover."

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Joshua Leonard recommended Nashville (1975) in Movies (curated)

 
Nashville (1975)
Nashville (1975)
1975 | Classics, Drama, Musical
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"Altman! Pound for pound probably my favorite filmmaker. I’m deeply in love with Short Cuts as well, but Nashville was my first… and you never forget your first. The world, the performances, the music — all seamless. Altman had a way of saying things without ever showing his hand. His world washes over you — and as it does, your heart fills to bursting."

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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
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"Davis is the ultimate prose stylist and this collection of short fiction proved addictive on many a late night. Her narrators are quirky, self-conscious, and sometimes humorously obsessive. Many of the stories are only a page or two long. But within those pages are observations that reveal the precise tics and nuances that make us indelibly who we are."

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So this was really short. But I get the basics of the story;

1. Her mum was killed by a guy with a scar

2. She has nightmares pretty much every night after seeing the above incident

3. She's being sent back to her grandpa and the house she used to spend her summers in

4. She's going to miss her brother.
  
The Woman Who Lives Next Door
The Woman Who Lives Next Door
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Amanda told me about this on here so I thought I'd check it out.

It's my first book by the author and it was okay, though I felt we missed out on a lot of information like how old everyone was, how long they'd known each other etc.

For such a short story, it was good but not exactly my sort of thing.
  
Watching Elijah Fall (Short North #1)
Watching Elijah Fall (Short North #1)
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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I like to read a short story--or three--whenever I'm struggling to get into my longer ones, which is my current problem, as I feel they help.

This was a sweet story, but I also felt like it didn't really have enough relationship progression in it. I would have loved to see more of them together. Other than that, I liked it.
  
I Knew You'd Be Lovely
I Knew You'd Be Lovely
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"I heard a smart person say once that short stories were the ideal form to receive and integrate information. Whether it’s completely true or not, the idea has stayed with me, and if you were trying to argue the point, “I Knew You’d Be Lovely,” could be held up as Exhibit A. Emotionally, no work(s) of fiction ever moved me more thoroughly."

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