Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
For a recent library book club I finally read Sandra Cisneros’s 1984 novel The House on Mango Street.
Tessa Hadley: “Vincent’s Party”
This week’s New Yorker fiction is “Vincent’s Party,” by Tessa Hadley.
Alice Munro: “Hired Girl”
Betsy continues her trek through Alice Munro’s work by looking at “Hired Girl,” from The View from Castle Rock.
Elisa Gabbert: Any Person Is the Only Self
Elisa Gabbert’s latest essay collection, Any Person Is the Only Self, is a wonderful collection about reading, writing, and life.
Alice Munro: “Lying Under the Apple Tree”
Betsy continues her trek through Alice Munro’s work by looking at “Lying Under the Apple Tree,” from The View from Castle Rock.
Goerge Eliot: Silas Marner
Carrying on with my year with George Eliot, I read and thoroughly enjoyed Silas Marner.
Camille Bordas: “Chicago on the Seine”
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Camille Bordas’s “Chicago on the Seine”
Alice Munro: “Fathers”
Betsy continues her trek through Alice Munro’s work by looking at “Fathers,” from The View from Castle Rock.
Ann Patchett: Commonwealth
Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth might be my favorite of her books that I’ve read so far.