Today the Giller Prize shortlist was announced: Going Home Again, by Dennis Bock Hellgoing, by Lynn Coady Cataract City, by Craig Davidson Caught, by Lisa Moore The Crooked Maid, by Dan Vyleta This is a bit surprising to me. First, I’m almost finished with Going Home Again, and I don’t like it much at all
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Lara Vapnyar’s “Katania” was originally published in the October 14, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I still haven’t caught up with Vapnyar’s last story in The New Yorker, “Fischer vs. Spassky” (my post, with links to story here), so I
Lucie Brock-Broido’s “Heat” was first published in the October 7, 2013 issue of The New Yorker and is available here for subscribers. Betsy “Heat” is not one of those poems that is immediately clear or satisfying. Nor is it lucid, limpid or lyric, nor musical or personal, nor epigrammatic. It is not wry, clever, witty or funny, and it
I’ve never been a big fan of Updike’s novels. I’m not sure why that is. It’s possible I just haven’t read them at the right time. Consequently, I gave up on them some years ago and have actually never read any of the Rabbit Angstrom books (though I did try Rabbit, Run). However, I have
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