“At the Bungalow” was originally published in the September 2, 2013 issue of The New Yorker (here). “At the Bungalow,” by Elizabeth Danson is terrific. Proceed no further! Read it first! The poem is a snapshot of a woman’s interior erotic life, one whose freedom sustains her, one she keeps private, one that derives part
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
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
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
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