Sandhurst, sire you put me to shame with your impressive repertoire of Literary readings. As for me, I have not made it to many of the stories you've mentioned. This, because I tend to lean towards novels and a very select group of authers. I do however, enjoy Woolf, Kincaid, Lamott and contemporary novelists like Picoult, Chevalier,Russo... and the list goes on. One of my BA's was in Literature and having to disect Shakepeare, Russell, Chekov burned me out. I washed my hands off critical analysis for a period of almost 15 years sinfully submerged myself into pleasure readings. Now, I'm back again "reading like a writer" because I have taken up writing. The deconstruction of any prose kills the romance for me but I have no other option, if I want to understand the craft of writing. Thank you for your interesting commentary. Always a pleasure reading you.