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Alice Munro: “Walker Brothers Cowboy”

February 1, 2013

Trevor begins his journey through Alice Munro’s first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, with “Walker Brothers Cowboy.”

Alice Munro: Dance of the Happy Shades

February 1, 2013

I got so much out of reading and reviewing over time each story in Munro’s Dear Life that I’ve decided to go back to the beginning and do the same with her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades. This is the anchor post, with a brief description of the book as well as links to all of the reviews.

William Trevor: Death in Summer

January 31, 2013

Over the past few years I’ve developed a deep love for William Trevor’s short stories. Particularly this past month, regular visitors here have caught wind of this (and hopefully have sought him out if they did not already know his work). But until now, I had never read one of his novels, and he’s written many in his 84

William Trevor: “An Idyll in Winter”

January 30, 2013

Trevor and Betsy take a look at William Trevor’s astonishing “An Idyll in Winter,” originally published in The Guardian.

Yoko Ogawa: Revenge

January 29, 2013

I’ve been hearing about Yoko Ogawa for a few years now, but I haven’t read her books and really didn’t even know what they were about. But there was something striking and terrifying about her new book Revenge (Kamoku na shigai, 1998; tr. from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder, 2013). Time to find out more about Ogawa.

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