To keep a short story long [May Reading Challenge]

Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat about our May reading challenge, Short Story Collections. We discuss life, the universe, and of course baseball. Let us know how many letters a woodchuck could write if a woodchuck could write letters.

Books we discuss include:

• “Haunted Maine” by Charles Stanfield
• “Something Rich and Strange” by Ron Rash (“Three AM and the Stars Were Out”)
• “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury (“The Veldt”)
• “The Amazing Mr. Morality” by Jacob M. Appel (“Burrowing in Exile”)
• “One More Thing” by B.J. Novak (“The Rematch”)
• “Classic American Short Stories” by Various (“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain)
• “The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories” by Penelope Lively
• “Life Ceremony” by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (“The Hatchling”)
• “Uncommon Type” by Tom Hanks
• “Normal Rules Don’t Apply” by Kate Atkinson (“The Void”)
• “When a Stranger Comes To Town” Anthology by Mystery Writers of America (“A Six Letter Word for Neighbor” by Lisa Unger)
• “Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks” by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Alexander Nabaum
• “The Brooklyn Nine” by Alan Gratz