...have the very best titles you'll find anywhere.
I mean, just listen to these things:
Too Much Happiness
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Shout Her Lovely Name
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry
Cowboys Are My Weakness
The Secret Society of Demolition Writers
This Will Be Difficult to Explain
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
It makes me really yearn to actually like short story collections more than I do.
But... instead, I just admire their titles from afar.
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Raymond Carver had good titles too, like "Will You Please Be Quiet Please" ...there might be a comma in there somewhere. I don't know.
Bybee -- Oh, that title is amazing. Makes me want to read it. Even though short stories... I don't adore them.
I picked up Jason Brown's "Why The Devil Chose New England For His Work" for the title alone. I couldn't even make it through the first story of the collection though.
Christy -- Great title! But I know what you mean about the stories not always living up to the title...
I just read one of Pam Houston's stories from the Cowboy book. The story was "How to Talk to a Hunter."
I wish I liked short stories more too, since that is what I write. I am going to try to read more though. I think I like longer reads because I like to get caught up in the worlds of stories. Short stories are too short to engage me as much.
Maybe I'll write a collection and call it "Short Stories for Those Too Small to read the Tall Ones" or something.
Fish -- LOL@ "tall ones"! That's excellent.
I agree -- about liking to sink into the world of a story, so a novel is more satisfying than a short story.
But I'll bet your short stories are different. And I'll bet they have great titles, too. Yes?
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