Haruki Murakami: “Kaho”
It’s the annual New Yorker fiction issue! The second of the four stories is Haruki Murakami’s “Kaho,” translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
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E.L. Doctorow: “The Drummer Boy on Independence Day”
It’s the annual New Yorker fiction issue! The first of the four stories is E.L. Doctorow’s “The Drummer Boy on Independence Day.”
Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
For a recent library book club I finally read Sandra Cisneros’s 1984 novel The House on Mango Street.
Tessa Hadley: “Vincent’s Party”
This week’s New Yorker fiction is “Vincent’s Party,” by Tessa Hadley.
Elisa Gabbert: Any Person Is the Only Self
Elisa Gabbert’s latest essay collection, Any Person Is the Only Self, is a wonderful collection about reading, writing, and life.
Goerge Eliot: Silas Marner
Carrying on with my year with George Eliot, I read and thoroughly enjoyed Silas Marner.
Camille Bordas: “Chicago on the Seine”
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Camille Bordas’s “Chicago on the Seine”
Ann Patchett: Commonwealth
Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth might be my favorite of her books that I’ve read so far.
Jean Stafford: The Mountain Lion
The most recent #NYRBWomen24 book that we finished was Jean Stafford’s The Mountain Lion, and it is not at all what I was expecting . . . in a good way!