Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Dashiell Hammett’s “An Inch and a Half of Glory” was originally published in the June 10 & 17, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. It’s time for the summer fiction issue of The New
Today they announced the shortlist for the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award: Tea at the Midland and Other Stories, by David Constantine Siege 13, by Tamas Dobozy Black Vodka, by Deborah Levy Black Dahlia & White Rose, by Joyce Carol Oates We’re Flying, by Peter Stamm Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins The winner
Naomi Alderman’s “Soon and in Our Days” is the fourth story in Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4. For an overview of the issue and links to my reviews of its other stories, please click here. This is the first piece so far that is a stand-alone story rather than an excerpt from a
This month, we are joined by Nick During of NYRB Classics to discuss Kingsley Amis’s novels The Alteration and The Green Man. We do apologize to you and to Nick, though, because for some reason only half of our discussion was recorded. Brian and I did get back together a few weeks later (finding time was difficult)
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