Some of these have been favorites since college. My tastes may have changed, but it would feel disloyal to drop any of them from the list.
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- Any page of Kafka
- The last 3 pages of Joyce’s “The Dead,” the first page of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and random pages from Ulysses
- The 50-page Prologue of Don
- DeLillo’s Underworld
- Any story by Stephen Dixon
- Any story by Damon Runyon
- A Good Man is Hard to Find, stories by Flannery O’Connor
- The Devil’s Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce [not fiction, but a favorite]
- Foreign Objects, by David Reisman [again, not fiction, but a favorite]
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