Possible Texts (links & stuff)

Here's a selection of texts based on mine and Maggie's discussion.

Albert Camus

Exile and the Kingdom
(a collection of short stories) published 1957 (a couple of years off, but maybe still okay) I didn't read all of them, but I liked "The Guest"
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Italo Calvino

Cosmicomics (pdf) (1965)
I only read the first story, but enjoyed it. These have a whimsical feel to them.

The Adventures of a Nearsighted Man (date unknown, though not likely before 1965)
(there are also the adventures of a poet & of a photographer)
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Charles Bukowski

I don't have any specific examples for now but I do like the idea of a collection of his poems.
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Alistair Cooke

Radio host for the BBC he had a show called Letter to America in which he would describe American life to his English audience. Peguin has collected all the broadcasts he wrote into a collection of essays. It has some nice descriptive pieces. It is non-fiction though, so maybe not as interesting as a nice short story.

This is it for now, I might search for more later. Have a look at some of texts see how you feel about them.