This post is part of a series dedicated to Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories, from The Library of America. “A Man of Ideas” comes from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. For an introduction to this series and for links to the other posts, please click here. After spending four chapters with Jesse Bentley and his heirs, “A
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Paul Theroux’s “I’m the Meat, You’re the Knife” was originally published in the October 7, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Betsy “I’m the Meat, You’re the Knife,” by Paul Theroux, is terrific. It’s
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes Knopf (2013) 128 pp I’ve been a fan of Julian Barnes for years. I was among those who cheered when he won the Man Booker Prize a few years ago for The Sense of an Ending (my thoughts here). That book got a lot of criticism for being too cold,
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Joshua Ferris’s “The Breeze” was originally published in the September 30, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor If Ferris’s last New Yorker piece, “The Fragments,” made me reconsider my misgivings about his work
A.E. Stallings’ sonnet “Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda” was first published in the September 23, 2013 issue of The New Yorker and is available here for subscribers. “Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda,” by A.E. Stallings, is a witty, amusing, and ultimately satisfying 14-line poem, and it matters for its use of rhyme. What I really liked about the poem was that
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