{"id":29057,"date":"2021-07-05T15:03:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29057"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:10:02","slug":"rebecca-curtis-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2021\/07\/05\/rebecca-curtis-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Curtis: “Satellites”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Satellites”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Rebecca Curtis<\/span>
\nfrom the July 12 & 19, 2021 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/h3><\/div>

\"\"I<\/span>t’s a bit later than usual, but it has arrived: the 2021\u00a0New Yorker<\/em> summer fiction issue! This year we have fiction from Rebecca Curtis, Sally Rooney, and — surprisingly — Marcel Proust!<\/p>\n

Rebecca Curtis’s last story to appear in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em> , “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit,” got a lot of comments here<\/a>, with many hating it and many liking it. I didn’t read it, so I have no comment! And here we are with another: “Satellites.” I can’t wait to see the response to this one! Here is how it starts:<\/p>\n

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One day last July, my husband\u2019s friend Tony Tarantino\u2014a tall, good-looking, rib-eye-and-Scotch-loving, thrice-divorced, AB-negative Trump enthusiast\u2014drove up from Virginia Beach to the Jersey shore to visit my husband, a retired banker, at his hulking nine-bedroom, eight-bath Tudor in the town of Coda-by-the-Sea, and after we\u2019d all been chatting, sans masks, on the porch for a while, right after Tony enjoyed an organic, grass-fed \u201cmarrow burger\u201d I\u2019d picked up for him from Cav\u00e9, the excellent local paleo restaurant, his cell phone rang. He said, Hello . . . ?, then frowned and hung up. He blushed as he placed his phone on the table next to his mai tai.<\/span><\/p>\n

My husband said, Auto warranty about to expire?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tony shook his head. A woman who called him an asshole, he said. Though, he added, he got the auto-warranty call a lot, too.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

My husband asked whether Tony knew who the woman was.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tony held his hands out, palms up. She hung up before he could ask, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So please enjoy this issue, and let me know how you felt about the story!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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