Yesterday, the 2013 winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction was announced (click here for their announcement). Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Finalists were: Threats, by Amelia Gray Kind One, by Laird Hunt Hold It ‘Till It Hurts, by T. Geronimo Johnson Watergate, by Thomas Mallon
This month, we are joined by Tara Olmsted of booksexyreview.com to discuss Nancy Mitford’s biography of Louix XIV, The Sun King. Louis XIV fell in love with Versailles and Louise de La Vallière at the same time. Versailles was the love of his life. So begins Nancy Mitford’s 1966 biography of Louis XIV, her third of four
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala “The Judge’s Will” was originally published in the March 25, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Betsy In “The Judge’s Will,” Ruth Prawer Jhabvala unfolds a neat, entertaining story that fools the reader. Many thanks to Jhabvala for giving us yet another deft,
“The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979” is the third story in Karen Russell’s second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. For an overview with links to review of the others stories in this collection, please click here. This story was originally published in Tin House (as “The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach”; I have
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