Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Daniel Alarcón’s “Collectors” was originally published in the July 29, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor The only thing I have by Alarcon was “Second Lives”, the piece published when he was listed as one
I missed this when it was announced a few weeks ago. This years winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award is: Tea at the Midland, by David Constantine I know little about this collection, but please feel free to let us know if you liked it.
Julián Fuks’s “The Dinner” (“O Jantar”; tr. from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz) is the tenth story in Granta 121: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists. For an overview of the issue and links to my reviews of its other stories, please click here. I’m of two minds about this piece. When I was just about finished
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). David Gilbert’s “From a Farther Room” was originally published in the July 22, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor “From a Farther Room” is about the familiar story of a middle-aged man
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