Ten Favorite Kevin Brockmeier Stories

(in order of today’s preference, and subject to reconsideration)

1. Andrea Is Changing Her Name (from The View from the Seventh Layer)

2. The Brief History of the Dead (published as a freestanding story, then as the first chapter of a novel of the same name)

3. A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets (from The View from the Seventh Layer)

4. The Library of Nathan Liu (uncollected, so far)

5. Chuck Carter (a freestanding section of The Illumination)

6. Elephants (from The Ghost Variations)

7. The View from the Seventh Layer (from The View from the Seventh Layer)

8. Ryan Shifrin (a freestanding section of The Illumination)

9. Love Is a Chain, Hope Is a Weed (from The Truth About Celia)

10. Apples (from Things That Fall from the Sky)

— December 9, 2023

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