“Dougbert Shackleton’s Rules for Antarctic Tailgating” is the sixth story in Karen Russell’s second short story collection,Vampires in the Lemon Grove. For an overview with links to review of the others stories in this collection, please click here. One of the risks of setting out to review every story in an unread short story collection is
The winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson The two finalists are: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey I’ve heard great things about The Orphan Master’s Son, but it hadn’t really tempted me. I
As you probably know, once a decade Granta unveils a selection of what they consider to be the 20 best British novelists under the age of forty. Today the new list came out, and the next issue will contain a selection from each of the following authors. Naomi Alderman Tahmima Anam Ned Beauman Jenni Fagan
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Roberto Bolaño’s “Mexican Manifesto” (tr. from the Spanish by Laura Healy) was originally published in the April 22, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor Reading “new” fiction by Roberto Bolaño is problematic. From what I know (which isn’t much), now that we’ve received his published material, we are tapping
“The Barn at the End of Our Term” is the fifth story in Karen Russell’s second short story collection,Vampires in the Lemon Grove. For an overview with links to review of the others stories in this collection, please click here. I planned to, but I haven’t been reviewing the stories in Russell’s collection regularly. I keep
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