Deal Me In!

Bibliophilopolis is hosting a short story challenge in 2017 (the 7th annual) in which you select which short story to read based on a list and a card draw.
To select my stories I gathered some TBR collections of stories from my shelves and decided on a theme for each suit to guide my choices. If I post about any of the stories during the year I will come back to this post and add links to the story posts. My plan is to draw my card each Wednesday evening.

HEARTS (Writers & Writing)
These essays all come from Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers which I got for Christmas --Thanks Mom!)

A= "Salman Rushdie" by Martin Amis [1-4-2017]
1= "Eudora Welty" by Willie Morris
2= "Josephine Tey" by Francis Wheen [1-25-2017]
3= "Ward Just" by David Halberstam [12-4-17]
4= "His Jewish Question" by Arthur Miller
5= "Dorthy Parker" by Christopher Hitchens [12-4-17]
6= "Kay Thompson" by Marie Brenner
7= "Willa Cather" by Truman Capote
8= "Reynolds Price" by Anne Tyler
9= "Grace Metalious" by Michael Callahan [7-22-17]
10= "e. e. cummings" by Susan Cheever [7-22-17]
J= "Ishmael Beah" by Dave Eggers
Q= "Judy Blume" by Meg Wolitzer
K= "Christopher Hitchens" by Salman Rushdie

SPADES (Noir)
I have several volumes from the Akashic Noir series in my TBR pile and these stories come from those books.

A= "The Confidential Informant" by George Pelecanos (DC) [11-23-17]
1= "Pretty Little Parasite" by David Corbett (Las Vegas)
2= "The Third Circle" by Frank Norris (San Francisco 2)
3= "The Bottom Line" by James Grady (DC) [11-22-17]
4= "Knives in the Dark" by Don Herron (San Francisco 2) [2-16-17]
5= "Disappear" by Jaq Greenspon (Las Vegas)
6= "The Scorched Face" by Dashiell Hammett (San Francisco 2)
7= "Solomon's Alley" by Robert Andrews (DC) [11-21-17]
8= "East of the Sun" by Jennifer Howard (DC) [11-23-17]
9= "Deceptions" by Marcia Muller (San Francisco 2) [1-22-2017]
10= "Atomic City" by Nora Pierce (Las Vegas)
J= "Coyote Hunt" by Ruben Castaneda (DC) [11-21-17]
Q= "The Black Hole of San Francisco" by Mark Twain (San Francisco 2)
K= "Murder is Academic" by Felicia Campbell (Las Vegas)

CLUBS (Grab bag)
These are essays and stories from various books (Wreck of the Godspeed by J. P. Kelly; Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman; and The Dolphin Reader) with no particular connection to each other.

A= "The Wreck of the Godspeed" by James Patrick Kelly
1= "Technology and Democracy" by Daniel Boorstin
2= "The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman [7-17-17]
3= "Are Women Human?" by Dorthy Sayers
4= "Jerusalem" by Neil Gaiman  [7-17-17]
5= "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
6= "The Dark Side of Town" by James Patrick Kelly [1-11-17]
7= "We are the Crazy Lady and other Feisty Feminist Tales" by Cynthia Ozick
8= "Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf
9= "Art for Art's Sake" by E. M. Forster
10= "Sightseer" by Walker Percy
J= "Orange" by Neil Gaiman  [7-15-17]
Q= "Writing and Typing" by John Kenneth Galbraith
K= "Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale" by Neil Gaiman [7-22-17]

DIAMONDS (Art and Artists)
These stories come from the Everyman's Pocket Classics Collection Stories of Art and Artists which was a gift last Christmas --Thanks Vicki!)

A= "How Wang-Fo was Saved" by Marguerite Yourcenar
1= "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe
2= "A Portrait" by Guy de Maupassant
3= "The Red-haired Girl" by Penelope Fitzgerald
4= "The Real Thing" by Henry James [2-1-2017]
5= "The Limner" by Julian Barnes
6= "Varengeville" by William Boyd
7= "A Brush" by John Berger [8-8-17]
8= "Two Potters" by Doris Lessing [7-22-17]
9= "A Lamia in the Cevennes" by A. S. Byatt
10= "Rembrandt's Hat" by Bernard Malamud [8-8-17]
J= "Jonas, or The Artist at Work" by Albert Camus [2-8-2017]
Q= "The Painter" by Hermann Hesse
K= "The Artist of the Beautiful" by Nathaniel Hawthorne