Trevor Berrett This is the first year the National Book Award is giving us a longlist of titles for each category. This past week, they’ve been announcing one category per day, culminating in today’s fiction longlist. Fiction: Pacific, by Tom Drury The End of the Point, by Elizabeth Graver The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner The Lowland, by … Read more
Trevor and Betsy begin Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women with “The Flats Road.”
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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.
Today the Man Booker Prize shortlist was announced: The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton Harvest, by Jim Crace A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo The Testament of Mary, by Colm Tóibín I’m thrilled to say that I had five books on … Read more
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Tahar Ben Jelloun’s “By Fire” (tr. from the French by Rita S. Nezami) was originally published in the September 16, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. This is the second piece of fiction in translation in a row, and the third in … Read more
Trevor reviews Robert Walser’s collection of stories, A Schoolboy’s Diary, translated from the German by Damion Searls.
This post is part of a series dedicated to Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories, from The Library of America. “Terror (Part IV)” comes from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. For an introduction to this series and for links to the other posts, please click here. This is the fourth and final part dealing with the patriarch Jesse, … Read more