The Mookse and the Gripes

Click the links below to go to that short-fiction piece’s discussion page where you will also find a link to the story on The New Yorker website.

2012:

May 28, 2012 — Lorrie Moore: “Referential”
May 21, 2012 — Maile Meloy: “The Proxy Marriage”
May 14, 2012 — Peter Stamm: “Sweet Dreams”
May 7, 2012 — Louise Erdrich: “Nero”
April 30, 2012 — Ian McEwan: “Hand on the Shoulder”
April 23, 2012 — Junot Díaz: “Miss Lora”
April 16, 2012 — Colum McCann: “Transatlantic”
April 9, 2012 — Jonathan Lethem: “The Porn Critic”
April 2, 2012 — Victor Lodato: “P.E.”
March 26, 2012 — Antonya Nelson: “Chapter Two”
March 19, 2012 — Rivka Galchen: “Appreciation”
March 12, 2012 — Donald Antrim: “Ever Since”
March 5, 2012 — Alice Munro: “Haven”
February 27, 2012 — Thomas McGuane: “A Prairie Girl”
February 13 & 20, 2012 — Michael Chabon: “Citizen Conn”
February 6, 2012 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Los Gigantes”
January 30, 2012 — Alice McDermott: “Someone”
January 23, 2012 –  Roberto Bolaño: “Labyrinth”
January 26, 2012 — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “A Brief Encounter with the Enemy”
January 9, 2012 — John Lanchester: “Expectations”
January 2, 2012 — Etgar Keret: “Creative Writing”

2011:

December 19 & 26, 2011 — Margaret Atwood: “Stone Mattress”
December 12, 2011 — Nathan Englander: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank”
December 5, 2011 — César Aira: “The Musical Brain”
November 28, 2011 — Alice Munro: “Leaving Maverley”
November 21, 2011 — Sam Lipsyte: “The Climber Room”
November 14, 2011 — Steven Millhauser: “Miracle Polish”
November 7, 2011 — Tessa Hadley: “The Stain”
October 31, 2011 — George Saunders: “Tenth of December”
October 24, 2011 — Caitlin Horrocks: “Sun City”
October 17, 2011 — (no fiction this issue)
October 10, 2011 — David Long: “Oubliette”
October 3, 2011 — Thomas McGuane: “The House on Sand Creek”
September 26, 2011 — Callan Wink: “Dog Run Moon”
September 19, 2011 — Ann Beattie: “Starlight”
September 12, 2011 — Yi Mun-Yol: “An Anonymous Island”
September 5, 2011 — Haruki Murakami: “Town of Cats”
August 29, 2011 — David Means: “El Morro”
August 15 & 22, 2011 — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi: “Gilgul”
August 8, 2011 — Ben Marcus: “What Have You Done?”
August 1, 2011 — Justin Torres: “Reverting to a Wild State”
July 25, 2011 — Robert Coover: “Matinée”
July 11 & 18, 2011 — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: “Aphrodisiac”
July 4, 2011 — Julian Barnes: “Homage to Hemingway”
June 27, 2011 — Alice Munro: “Gravel”
June 13 & 20, 2011 — Fiction Issue
George Saunders: “Home”
Jeffrey Eugenides: “Asleep in the Lord”
Lauren Groff: “Above and Below”
June 6, 2011 — Tessa Hadley: “Clever Girl”
May 30, 2011 — Kate Walbert: “M&M World”
May 23, 2011 — Ron Rash: “The Trusty”
May 16, 2011 — Michael Ondaatje: “The Cat’s Table”
May 9, 2011 — Donald Antrim: “He Knew”
May 2, 2011 — Sam Lipsyte: “Deniers”
April 25, 2011 — Thomas McGuane: “The Good Samaritan”
April 18, 2011 — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: “A Withered Branch”
April 11, 2011 — Keith Ridgway: “Goo Book”
April 4, 2011 — Ramona Ausubel: “Atria”
March 28, 2011 — Haruki Murakami: “U.F.O. in Kushiro”
March 21, 2011 — Ben Marcus: “Rollingwood”
March 14, 2011 — Robert Coover: “Going for a Beer”
March 7, 2011 — David Foster Wallace: “Backbone”
February 28, 2011 — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “Paranoia”
February 14 & 21, 2011 — Mary Gaitskill: “The Other Place”
February 7, 2011 — Tessa Hadley: “Honor”
January 31, 2011 — Alice Munro: “Axis”
January 24, 2011 — Hisham Matar: “Naima”
January 17, 2011 — Amos Oz: “The King of Norway”
January 10, 2011 — Louise Erdrich: “The Years of My Birth”
January 3, 2011 — Steven Millhauser: “Getting Closer”

2010:

December 20 & 27, 2010 — George Saunders: “Escape from Spiderhead”
December 13, 2010 — Nuruddin Farah: “Youngthing”
December 5, 2010 — Jim Gavin: “Costello”
November 29, 2010 — Samantha Hunt: “The Yellow”
November 22, 2010 — E.L. Doctorow: “Assimilation”
November 15, 2010 — Tessa Hadley: “The Trojan Prince”
November 8, 2010 — Jim Shepard: “Boys Town”
November 1, 2010 — Frances Hwang: “Blue Roses”
October 25, 2010 — David Means: “Tree Line, Kansas, 1934″
October 18, 2010 — Richard Powers: “To the Measures Fall”
October 11, 2010 — Alice Munro: “Corrie”
October 4, 2010 — Sam Lipsyte: “The Dungeon Master”
September 27, 2010 — Chris Adrian: “The Warm Fuzzies”
September 20, 2010 — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Birdsong”
September 13, 2010 — Wells Tower: “The Landlord”
September 6, 2010 — Nell Freudenberger: “An Arranged Marriage”
August 30, 2010 — Yiyun Li: “The Science of Flight”
August 16 & 23, 2010 — Daniel Alarcón: “Second Lives”
August 9, 2010 — David Bezmozgis: “The Train of Their Departure”
August 2, 2010 — Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn”
July 26, 2010 — Karen Russell: “The Dredgeman’s Revelation”
July 12 & 19, 2010 — Dinaw Mengestu: “An Honest Exit”
July 5, 2010 — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum: “The Erlking”
June 28, 2010 — Nicole Krauss: “The Young Painters”
June 14 & 21, 2010 – 20 Under 40 Issue
          Joshua Ferris: “The Pilot”
Jonathan Safran Foer: “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly”
Phillip Meyer: “What You Do Out Here, When You’re Alone”
Rivka Galchen: “The Entire Northern Side Was Covered With Fire”
Gary Shteyngart: “Lenny Hearts Eunice”
ZZ Packer: “Dayward”
Salvatore Scibona: “The Kid”
C.E. Morgan: “Twins”
June 7, 2010 – Jeffrey Eugenides: “Extreme Solitude”
May 31, 2010 – Jonathan Franzen: “Agreeable”
May 24, 2010 – Roddy Doyle: “Ash”
May 17, 2010 – Nathan Englander: “Free Fruit for Young Widows”
May 10, 2010 – Dagoberto Gilb: “Uncle Rock”
May 3, 2010 – Allegra Goodman: “La Vita Nuova”
April 26, 2010 – E.L. Doctorow: “Edgemont Drive”
April 19, 2010 – Roberto Bolaño: “The Prefiguration of Lalo Cura”
April 12, 2010 – Ben Loory: “The TV”
April 5, 2010 – Janet Frame: “Gavin Highly”
March 29, 2010 – Joyce Carol Oates: “I.D.”
March 22, 2010 – Junot Díaz: “The Pura Principle”
March 15, 2010 – David Means: “The Knocking”
March 8, 2010 – Jennifer Egan: “Ask Me If I Care”
March 1, 2010 – Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “Appetite”
February 15 & 22, 2010 – Claire Keegan: “Foster”
February 8, 2010 – Roberto Bolaño: “William Burns”
February 1, 2010 – Kevin Barry: “Fjord of Killary”
January 25, 2010 – E.O. Wilson: “Trailhead”
January 18, 2010 – T. Coraghessan Boyle: “A Death in Kitchawank”
January 11, 2010 – Jennifer Egan: “Safari”
January 4, 2010 – Uwem Akpan: “Baptizing the Gun”

2009:

December 21 & 28, 2009 — Helen Simpson: “Diary of an Interesting Year”
December 14, 2009 — David Foster Wallace: “And All That”
December 7, 2009 — Ian McEwan: “The Use of Poetry”
November 30, 2009 — Don DeLillo: “Midnight in Dostoevsky”
November 23, 2009 — Sam Shepard: “Indianapolis (Highway 74)”
November 16, 2009 — Yiyun Li: “Alone”
November 9, 2009 — Stephen King: “Premium Harmony”
November 2, 2009 — Javier Marias: “While the Women Are Sleeping”
October 26, 2009 — Jonathan Lethem: “Procedure in Plain Air”
October 19, 2009 — Julian Barnes: “Complicity”
October 12, 2009 — Tessa Hadley: “The Godchildren”
October 5, 2009 — George Saunders: “Victory Lap”
September 29, 2009 — Marisa Silver: “Temporary”
September 21, 2009 – Sam Shepard: “Land of the Living”
September 14, 2009 – Paul Therous: “The Lower River”
September 7, 2009 – Orhan Pamuk: “Distant Relations”
August 31, 2009 — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: “The Fountain House”
August 24, 2009 — Dave Eggers: “Max at Sea”
August 10 & 17, 2009 — Sherman Alexie: “War Dances”
August 3, 2009 — Joshua Ferris: “The Valetudinarian”
July 27, 2009 — Kirstin Valdez Quade: “The Five Wounds”
July 20, 2009 — William Styron: “Rat Beach”
July 6 & 13, 2009 — Lorrie Moore: “Children”
Jun 29, 2009 — Stephen O’Connor: “Ziggurat”
June 22, 2009 — Tim Gautreaux: “Idols”
June 8 & 15, 2009 — Fiction Issue
Jonathan Franzen: “Good Neighbors”
Edna O’Brien: “Old Wounds”
Téa Obreht: “The Tiger’s Wife”
June 1, 2009 — Craig Raine: “Love Affair with Secondaries”
May 25, 2009 — Jonathan Lethem: “Ava’s Apartment”
May 18, 2009 — Salman Rushdie: “In the South”
May 11, 2009 — J.G. Ballard: “The Autobiography of J.G.B.”
May 4, 2009 — Gail Hareven: “The Slows”
April 27, 2009 — Guillermo Martínez: “Vast Hell”
April 20, 2009 — Chris Adrian: “A Tiny Feast”
April 13, 2009 — Colm Tóibín: “The Color of Shadows”
April 6, 2009 — Brad Watson: “Visitation”
March 30, 2009 — Craig Raine: “Julia and Byron”
March 23, 2009 — Tessa Hadley: “She’s the One”
March 16, 2009 — No fiction; large selection of recent John Updike poems
March 9, 2009 — David Foster Wallace: “Wiggle Room”
March 2, 2009 — A.M. Homes: “Brother on Sunday”
February 23, 2009 — Italo Calvino: “The Daughters of the Moon”
February 9 & 16, 2009 — Steven Millhauser: “The Invasion from Outer Space”
February 2, 2009 — George Saunders: “Al Roosten”
January 26, 2009 — Aravind Adiga: “The Elephant”
January 19, 2009 — Antonya Nelson: “Soldier Joy”
January 12, 2009 — Joyce Carol Oates: “Pumpkin Head”
January 5, 2009 — Julian Barnes: “The Limner”