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Alice Munro: “Sunday Afternoon”

April 2, 2013

Trevor and Betsy looks at Alice Munro’s “Sunday Afternoon,” from Dance of the Happy Shades.

Tessa Hadley: “Valentine”

April 1, 2013

Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Tessa Hadley’s “Valentine” was originally published in the April 8, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor As a fan of Tessa Hadley, I’m excited that she is the first author to have

Elfriede Jelinek: Her Not All Her

March 29, 2013

When it comes to Robert Walser, I’m only a novitiate. The first thing I read by him was The Tanners back in 2009 when it was released by New Directions (see my thoughts here). Though new to the fold, I easily understand why Walser’s work and life holds so many readers and writers in thrall. There’s a polite yet

Alice Munro: “Red Dress — 1946”

March 28, 2013

Trevor and Betsy explore Alice Munro’s “Red Dress — 1946,” from Dance of the Happy Shades.

Andrés Neuman: Traveler of the Century

March 27, 2013

As spring begins to warm up my neck of the woods, what a joy to read a book so filled with life and ideas and pleasure, a book that contemplates what it means to wake up and wander as well as what it means to settle down in repose. Traveler of the Century (El viajero del siglo, 2009; tr. from the

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