Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Joyce Carol Oates’ “Mastiff” was originally published in the July 1, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor A man and a woman, uncertain in their couple status, are out for a hike. When the story begins, they pass a massive
This post is part of a series dedicated to Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories, from The Library of America. “Paper Pills” comes from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. For an introduction to this series and for links to the other posts, please click here. There is something strange and probably deliberate about “Paper Pills.” In many ways,
This post is part of a series dedicated to Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories, from The Library of America. “Hands” comes from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. For an introduction to this series and for links to the other posts, please click here. When I think of Winesburg, Ohio, I think of “Hands” and its subject, Wing Biddlebaum.
This post is part of a series dedicated to Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories, from The Library of America. “The Book of the Grotesque” comes from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. For an introduction to this series and for links to the other posts, please click here. Winesburg, Ohio begins with “The Book of the Grotesque,” a
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