The New Yorker Project 4— Crème de La Crème

A WRITER'S WIT
Time is a great teacher.
Carl Sandburg
Born January 6, 1878

Crème de La Crème

Scroll down if you missed yesterday's introduction. In today's post I list what I feel are the top short stories in 2014's The New Yorker, listed in chronological order. These stories knock my socks off, are so skillfully written I can’t deny them their due recognition. Click on the title to activate a link to the original post profiling the story. Then read the story!

1. January 20, 2014, Akhil Sharma, “A Mistake”
2. February 3, 2014, Donald Antrim, “The Emerald Light in the Air”
3. March 3, 2014, Denis Johnson, “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden”
4. March 24, 2014, Tessa Hadley, “Under the Sign of the Moon”

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5. April 7, 2014, Jonathan Lethem, “Pending Vegan”
6. April 28, 2014, Thomas McGuane, “Hubcaps”
7. May 5, 2014, Sam Lipsyte, “The Naturals”
8. May 26, 2014, Alejandro Zambra, “Camilo”

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9. June 9 & 16, 2014, David Gilbert, “Here’s the Story”
10. June 9 & 16, 2014, Karen Russell, “The Bad Graft”
11. June 23, 2014, Maile Meloy, “Madame Lazarus”
12. June 30, 2014, Rebecca Curtis, “The Pink House”

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13. July 7, 2014, Allegra Goodman, “Apple Cake”
14. September 22, 2014, Victor Lodato, “Jack, July”
15. October 13, 2014, Haruki Murakami, “Scheherazade”
16. October 20, 2014, Kirstin Valdez Quade, “Ordinary Sins”

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17. November 3, 2014, Jess Row, “The Empties”
18. November 10, 2014, Antonya Nelson, “Primum Non Nocere”
19. November 17, 2014, Dave Eggers, “Alaska of Giants and Gods”
20. December 8, 2014, Tim Parks, “Reverend”

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