Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Zadie Smith’s “Moonlit Landscape with Bridge” was originally published in the February 10, 2014 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I’ve always felt a bit out-of-step when it comes to Zadie Smith. I like her writing quite a lot, but what I’ve
Andrea Barrett’s “The Investigators” is the first story in her short story collection Archangel (2013), which is a finalist for this year’s The Story Prize. “The Investigators” was first published in issue 18 (Summer 2013) of A Public Space. I’m a big fan of Andrea Barrett. She has a degree in biology and attended a
Today the American Library Association announced its 2014 youth media award winners, which includes, among other awards, the Newbery Medal, the Caldecott Medal, and the Printz Award. Here are those winners (I’d link to their website for a list of all winners, but their website has always been atrocious and hard to access — it’s
NYRB Classics published their edition of A Month in the Country in October of 2000, and it is the book we’ll be talking about in Episode 11 of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast. I’m going to get nostalgic for a moment. It’s only been about five years, but I remember feeling cold back in
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Donald Antrim’s “The Emerald Light in the Air” was originally published in the February 3, 2014 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I’m sorry that I didn’t get thoughts up sooner than now. Last week was a big week — we bought
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