Trevor Berrett Tonight they announced that Tenth of December, by George Saunders, has won this years Story Prize (click here for the official post at The Story Prize website). I have read most of the stories in Tenth of December, and I liked maybe half of them. The rest felt like he was relying on a formula, … Read more
Trevor and Betsy begin their trek through Alice Munro’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You with the first story, “Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You.”
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Yiyun Li’s “A Sheltered Woman” was originally published in the March 10, 2014 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor When I first started reading Yiyun Li’s work, I wasn’t quite sure what to make … Read more
Trevor reviews Ingmar Bergman’s masterful film, Winter Light, about a priest who has lost his faith and wonders how to face the cold world. Read the full post.
David and Trevor are back with Eclipse Viewer 12: Lubitsch Musicals. Read the full post and get the link to the podcast.
Trevor and Betsy embark on a story-by-story analysis of Alice Munro’s third book, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You. This post contains an introduction as well as links to each piece they’ve covered.
A couple of years ago, Open Letter Books published Dubravka Ugresic’s Karaoke Culture, a collection of essays examining culture from a wide variety of perspectives. Deservedly, that book went on to become a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. We now have the great fortune of a new book of Ugresic’s essays: Europe … Read more
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Denis Johnson’s “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” was originally published in the March 3, 2014 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I think Denis Johnson is an exceptional writer, so I was excited … Read more
Trevor and Betsy discuss Alice Munro’s “Changes and Ceremonies,” from Lives of Girls and Women.
The Literature Translation Institute of Korea has been actively working to showcase English translations of modern Korean literature. Last year, they collaborated with Dalkey Archive to bring out the first ten of a planned twenty-five book set of modern Korean literature “aim[ed] to introduce the intellectual and aesthetic diversity of contemporary Korean writing to English … Read more