Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Tessa Hadley’s “Bad Dreams” was originally published in the September 23, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I’m a big fan of Tessa Hadley, so I consider the steady flow of her work into The New Yorker to be a good
Today they announced the 2013 Giller Prize longlist (which contains two collections of short stories): Going Home Again, by Dennis Bock The Orenda, by Joseph Boyden Hellgoing, by Lynn Coady Cataract City, by Craid Davidson How to Get Along with Women, by Elisabeth De Mariaffi Extraordinary, by David Gilmour Emancipation Day, by Wayne Grady October
“At the Bungalow” was originally published in the September 2, 2013 issue of The New Yorker (here). “At the Bungalow,” by Elizabeth Danson is terrific. Proceed no further! Read it first! The poem is a snapshot of a woman’s interior erotic life, one whose freedom sustains her, one she keeps private, one that derives part
Since I posted my Pantheon of authors (here), partly to kick-start my goal of reading everything these authors have written, I have not read a book by a single one . . . until now. After months of trying to get through a middle portion (which I’ll get to in a minute), I can now say
Trevor and Betsy read through and review each of the stories in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women. This post contains a brief overview with links to each of the reviews.
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