![]() ![]() These stories are so smart and so unsettling every sentence will unnerve you. My selection is Bennett Sims’ White Dialogues (Two Dollar Radio) one of the most genuinely terrifying, brilliant short story collections of the past decade. If I do say so myself, this is a good list as any to take you into 2020. ![]() ![]() They came back with a list of short stories collections, novels, novellas, and memoirs from the tiniest presses to the largest ones, from authors you’ve heard of and authors you haven’t. So with that in mind, we asked some of our favorite writers to recommend an underappreciated book (or two), published in the last ten years, that they think more people should read. This is not to say that those ubiquitous books aren’t great-only that there’s more out there. And besides, publishing is a machine, and a business, and so is book media, and sometimes it seems that all we hear about are the same 30 books, the same 30 authors, recycled and rehyped over and over again. ![]() We’ve been doing quite a bit of it here at Literary Hub, as you may have noticed, but even we haven’t read everything. With the end of anything comes reflection. ![]()
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