Library of America’s Top 10 Story of the Week selections of 2016
John O’Hara, “Christmas Poem”
Shirley Jackson, “Biography of a Story”
Robert Hagy, “The Worst News That I Have Encountered in the Last 20 Years”
Loren Eiseley, “The Fifth Planet”
Carson McCullers, “Wunderkind”
Mark Twain, “My First Lie and How I Got Out of It”
Julian Hawthorne, “Absolute Evil”
Caroline W. Healey Dall, “A Sketch from Maryland Life”
Nathanael West, “Western Union Boy”
Juanita Nelson, “A Matter of Freedom”
John O’Hara, “Agatha”
Sherwood Anderson, “Unlighted Lamps”
Ursula K. Le Guin, “Imaginary Countries”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Deacon’s Masterpiece”
John Muir, “Save the Redwoods”
