She read alongside Claire Vaye Watkins, who read from her short story, also one of my recent favorites, “I Love You, but I’ve Chosen Darkness,” (which you can also read, if you’ve a mind and why not since it’s short story month, here). One of my reigning short story favorites is “The Country” by Joy Williams (the story can be found among the new stories in The Visiting Privilege). I could never pick a single favorite story, but a story that’s stuck with me since I originally read it in the 2006 Summer Fiction Issue of the Atlantic is Lauren Groff’s “L.