Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Tessa Hadley’s “Bad Dreams” was originally published in the September 23, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I’m a big fan of Tessa Hadley, so I consider the steady flow of her work into The New Yorker to be a good … Read more
Today they announced the 2013 Giller Prize longlist (which contains two collections of short stories): Going Home Again, by Dennis Bock The Orenda, by Joseph Boyden Hellgoing, by Lynn Coady Cataract City, by Craid Davidson How to Get Along with Women, by Elisabeth De Mariaffi Extraordinary, by David Gilmour Emancipation Day, by Wayne Grady October … Read more
“At the Bungalow” was originally published in the September 2, 2013 issue of The New Yorker (here). “At the Bungalow,” by Elizabeth Danson is terrific. Proceed no further! Read it first! The poem is a snapshot of a woman’s interior erotic life, one whose freedom sustains her, one she keeps private, one that derives part … Read more
Since I posted my Pantheon of authors (here), partly to kick-start my goal of reading everything these authors have written, I have not read a book by a single one . . . until now. After months of trying to get through a middle portion (which I’ll get to in a minute), I can now say … Read more
Trevor and Betsy read through and review each of the stories in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women. This post contains a brief overview with links to each of the reviews.
Today the Man Booker Prize shortlist was announced: The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton Harvest, by Jim Crace A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo The Testament of Mary, by Colm Tóibín I’m thrilled to say that I had five books on … Read more
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Tahar Ben Jelloun’s “By Fire” (tr. from the French by Rita S. Nezami) was originally published in the September 16, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. This is the second piece of fiction in translation in a row, and the third in … Read more
“The Guttural Muse” was originally published in the June 25, 1979 issue of The New Yorker. It was reprinted in the September 9, 2013 issue just after Heaney’s death on August 30. Seamus Heaney is said to have texted his wife right before his death: “Noli timere.” Have no fear. Don’t be afraid. This week … Read more
Trevor reviews Robert Walser’s collection of stories, A Schoolboy’s Diary, translated from the German by Damion Searls.
This post is part of a series dedicated to Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories, from The Library of America. “Terror (Part IV)” comes from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. For an introduction to this series and for links to the other posts, please click here. This is the fourth and final part dealing with the patriarch Jesse, … Read more