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Some Short Stories From The New Yorker

As if my to read list isn't long enough already, not to mention my to do list, I just discovered what look like some interesting short stories in The New Yorker.

David Foster Wallace: All That. I'm still reading Infinite Jest. Definitely one of my favourite novels ever. It is actually with a bit of sadness that I look to the day that I will finish it. Maybe that's why it is taking me so long. I really love every page of it.

Yiyun Li: Alone. I haven't come around to reading all the stories in her collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which I was saving for a trip to Shanghai which was cancelled at the last minute.

Don DeLillo: Midnight in Dostoevsky.

Javier Marías: While the Women Are Sleeping. Javier Marías trilogy Tu rostro mañana (Your Face Tomorrow) is high on my reading list.

Jonathan Lethem: Procedure in Plain Air. I've never read anything by him, but his latest novel Chronic City was recommended to me as another great New York novel, so I'm curious.

Roberto Bolaño: William Burns. This story was published a few weeks after I originally posted this list, but I thought I'd add it here rather than creating a new list.