It’s that time of year again — time for The New Yorker‘s summer fiction issue!
This post will serve as a kind of anchor post, listing the pieces and linking to our posts on each. Should folks wish to weigh in on the issue as a whole, please comment here.
Here are the four fiction pieces (again, I’ll have individual posts up very soon):
- David Gilbert: “Here’s the Story” (link to abstract)
- Ramona Ausubel: “You Can Find Love Now” (link to abstract)
- Haruki Murakami: “Yesterday” (link to the abstract)
- Karen Russell: “The Bad Graft” (link to abstract)
In addition to these fiction pieces, the following writers (and cartoonists) have provided pieces about old flames:
- Alison Bechdel: “Gradual Impact” (link to entire piece)
- Rachel Kushner: “The Adolescents” (link to the abstract)
- Joshua Ferris: “Good Legs” (link to the abstract)
- Colm Tóibín: “Stories” (link to the abstract)
- Miranda July: “TV” (link to the entire piece)
- Tobias Wolff: “Beautiful Girl” (link to the abstract)
- Chris Ware: “Possession” (link to the abstract)
I haven’t read any of these yet, so I’m not sure if we’ll put individual posts up.
Looking forward to receiving my copy in the mail soon!
Are the first person Old Flame narratives also fiction?
Jon, they all seem to be lightly-fictionalized personal history-type pieces. I think three of the five note that names and/or details have been changed to disguise identities of the people discussed. Anyway, they are stellar.