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Sarah Selecky: This Cake Is for the Party

June 23, 2016October 19, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Sarah Selecky’s short story collection This Cake Is for the Party. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Sarah Selecky Tags 2010, 2010 Giller Prize, 2010s, Short Story 6 Comments

Alexander MacLeod: Light Lifting

June 21, 2016October 11, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Alexander MacLeod’s short story collection Light Lifting. Read the full post.

Categories Alexander MacLeod, Book Reviews Tags 2010, 2010 Giller Prize, 2010s, Short Story 5 Comments

Maile Meloy: Half in Love

June 17, 2016August 13, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Maile Meloy’s short story collection Half in Love. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Maile Meloy Tags 2000s, 2002, Short Story 5 Comments

William Trevor: Cheating at Canasta

June 17, 2016August 3, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews William Trevor’s short story collection Cheating at Canasta. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, William Trevor Tags 2000s, 2007, Short Story 11 Comments

Maile Meloy: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

September 19, 2017July 20, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Maile Meloy’s short story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It.

Categories Book Reviews, Maile Meloy Tags 2000s, 2009, Short Story 20 Comments

Tobias Wolff: Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

August 9, 2016June 22, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Tobias Wolff’s story collection Our Story Begins. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Tobias Wolff Tags 2000s, 2008, Short Story 17 Comments

Year in Review: The New Yorker Short Fiction of 2009

May 21, 2020December 21, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor recaps and reviews the stories that appeared in The New Yorker in 2009.

Categories New Yorker Fiction Tags Short Story 16 Comments

Valeria Parrella: For Grace Received

May 27, 2018October 29, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Valeria Parrella’s collection of four long stories For Grace Received, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

Categories Book Reviews, Valeria Parrella Tags 2000s, 2005, Europa Editions, Italian, Short Story 3 Comments

Philip Roth: Goodbye, Columbus

February 12, 2018May 9, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Philip Roth’s debut, a collection of short stories that went on to win the National Book Award, Goodbye, Columbus.

Categories Book Reviews, Philip Roth Tags 1950s, 1959, National Book Award, Short Story 12 Comments

David Foster Wallace: “This Is Water” and “Wiggle Room”

January 15, 2018April 20, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor looks at David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech “This Is Water” and his short story “Wiggle Room.”

Categories Book Reviews, David Foster Wallace Tags 2000s, 2005, Short Story 7 Comments
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