Short story a day challenge

[Cherrypi]

Anyone wants to join me trying to read more short stories? I have several collections on my kindle that have been there a while. I'm trying to improve my concentration and stop double screening and thought this would help. I've also, following the Netflix documentary, subscribed digitally to The New Yorker and know they have a strong short story tradition.

What Netflix documentary?

The New Yorker at 100. I really enjoyed it.

Funny enough, I am reading a short story every day for Advent. I think it's ideal at this busy time of year. So far I have read some from James Joyce, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Kate Atkinson and Claire Keegan. I'm just choosing them at random. There are also some lovely Christmas themed collections like the British Library Women Writers "Stories for Christmas". I would also recommend Katharine Mansfield and Somerset Maughan but there are so many fantastic collections to choose from.

Are you finding it edifying @Sheeppig? I didn't know Claire Keegan had released short stories. Thanks for the tip.

I am certainly enjoying it. It is great to experience different styles of writing and I think the short story is a really difficult thing to write so a good one is so impressive. I even noticed how one writer has influenced another (compare Joyce's short story The Dead to Katharine Mansfield's Bliss).
Keegan's collection is called Antartica though her novels are so slim they are almost short stories themselves!

I read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson yesterday. I can see why it caused such an uproar in the 60s. Today I've started Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny.

Yesterday I read the first story - Chicken flavoured and lemon scented which was about driving test examiners.