Written Reviews

Thomas McGuane: “Stars”

June 17, 2013

Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Thomas McGuane’s “Stars” was originally published in the June 24, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. I have read this already, but as I’m on holiday I’m not sure when I’ll be able to post my thoughts. Soon

Cormac McCarthy: “Scenes of the Crime”

June 14, 2013

Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Cormac McCarthy’s “Scenes of the Crime” was originally published in the June 10 & 17, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Cormac McCarthy’s “Scenes of the Crime” is included in this fiction issue and isn’t

Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories

June 13, 2013

At the end of December 2012, The Library of America published Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories. Michael Dirda, in a review he wrote for The Times Literary Supplement (here), called Anderson “the John the Baptist who prepared the way for (and influenced) writers as different as Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty and Ray Bradbury.” The Library of

Sherman Alexie: “Happy Trails”

June 12, 2013

Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Sherman Alexie’s “Happy Trails” was originally published in the June 10 & 17, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I haven’t read a lot of Sherman Alexie, but I have enjoyed the bits

Russell Hoban: Turtle Diary

June 11, 2013

Trevor reviews Russell Hoban’s 1975 novel on loneliness and hope, Turtle Diary. Read the full post

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