{"id":17895,"date":"2016-04-18T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=17895"},"modified":"2016-04-25T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:39:06","slug":"lara-vapnyar-waiting-for-the-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/04\/18\/lara-vapnyar-waiting-for-the-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lara Vapnyar: “Waiting for the Miracle”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cWaiting for the Miracle\u201d<\/span>\r\n<\/strong>by Lara Vapnyar<\/span>\r\nOriginally published in the April 25, 2016 issue of The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/span>\r\nClick here<\/a> to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker<\/em> website.<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"AprilIn 2003, Vapnyar published her debut story in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>, “Love Lessons, Mondays, 9 a.m.”\u00a0Over next decade, she published the past few years, Lara Vapnyar has published five more in the magazine, including a couple of stories\u00a0we’ve posted on, though hardly discussed, here: “Fischer vs. Spassky” in 2012 (our post here<\/a>) and “Katania” in 2013 (our post here<\/a>). Neither got a massive response here (indeed, no one really wrote anything about “Fischer vs. Spassky,” though I remember reading it quite late in the game).<\/p>\n
Consequently, for me, Vapnyar remains very much an unknown entity. Looking into her history a bit for this post, I am impressed with all she has accomplished. Apparently, she only started learning English in 1994, when she moved to Brooklyn from Moscow. Her first book was published in 2002, with a story in The New Yorker<\/em> arriving in 2003. That’s an amazing story right there, and it looks like many of her stories circle around the experience of Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9s in New York.<\/p>\n
That’s the basic setup for “Waiting for the Miracle” as well.<\/p>\n
Looking forward to any thoughts below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week\u2019s New Yorker story is Lara Vapnyar’s \u201cWaiting for the Miracle.\u201d Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[356,94],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-17895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lara-vapnyar","category-new-yorker-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vapnyar-Waiting-for-the-Miracle.jpg?fit=690%2C924&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-4ED","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17944,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions\/17944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17895"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}