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Cynan Jones: “Pulse”

April 29, 2024

This week’s New Yorker fiction is “Pulse,” by Cynan Jones.

Eileen Chang: Love in a Fallen City

April 25, 2024

One of my favorite reading projects is Kim McNeil’s NYRB Women project. The latest book we read was Eileen Chang’s collection of short stories Love in a Fallen City.

MacDonald Harris: Mortal Leap

April 23, 2024

MacDonald Harris’s 1964 novel Mortal Leap is back in print for the first time since . . . well, 1964, thanks to the great series Recovered Books from Boiler House Press. It’s certainly worth your time!

Joyce Carol Oates: “Late Love”

April 19, 2024

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Joyce Carol Oates’s “Late Love.”

Alice Munro: “The View from Castle Rock”

October 26, 2023

Betsy continues her exploration of Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock with the title story.

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