{"id":29758,"date":"2022-07-04T15:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29758"},"modified":"2022-07-04T15:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:21:41","slug":"2022-new-yorker-fiction-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2022\/07\/04\/2022-new-yorker-fiction-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 New Yorker Fiction Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Call Me Ishmael”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Shirley Jackson<\/span><\/p>\n

“Arrivals”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Bryan Washington<\/span><\/p>\n

“A King Alone”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Rachel Kushner<\/span><\/p>\n

“Peking duck”<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Ling Ma<\/span><\/p>\n

from the July 11 & 18, 2022 issue of The\u00a0New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"[fusion_dropcap boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”” class=”” id=”” color=”#003366″ hue=”” saturation=”” lightness=”” alpha=”” text_color=””]F[\/fusion_dropcap]or years and years the fiction issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em> came out in early June, but this is the second year it’s arriving in July. I’m not sure which I prefer, but I’m excited it’s here! This time we get an early story from Shirley Jackson and new stories from Bryan Washington, Rachel Kushner, and Ling Ma.<\/p>\n

Enjoy! And please come back and leave your thoughts below! Which was your favorite?<\/p>\n

Here are the pieces:<\/p>\n

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“Call Me Ishmael,” Shirley Jackson<\/p>\n

“Yes,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was quite stupid of people, she thought, to make everything, even conversation, so interrelated and dependent that she could not say merely that\u00a0it<\/em>\u00a0was incredible but must be referring to something preceding or obvious; nothing exists, she thought, unless it depends upon something previous; people are incapable of realizing anything that does not bear upon that interrelation. In this case, it was the number of warm days that was incredible (warm days being a factor in\u00a0anyone\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0understanding), instead of anything more important, and there seem to be so few important things, she thought desperately, besides the weather.<\/p>\n

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“Arrivals,” by Bryan Washington<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve caught the morning\u2019s first flight and your car is late, but Aiden told you it\u2019d be there and five minutes later it is. He\u2019s filming in Georgia, because apparently everyone\u2019s filming in Georgia, which means he\u2019s sleeping on set, which means you won\u2019t catch him during daylight hours\u2014but he still puts you up in a hotel on Piedmont for the weekend.<\/p>\n

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“A King Alone,” by Rachel Kushner<\/p>\n

He was on a low road next to the French Broad, which divided the town in half. He thought about how with small cities, like this one, that were split in two by a river, you added the word \u201cWest\u201d or the word \u201cEast\u201d to the half that was less desirable, the half that was not the commercial center.<\/p>\n

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“Peking Duck,” by Ling Ma<\/p>\n

In my first years in the U.S., my parents take me to the library to encourage my learning of English. With my mother\u2019s guidance, I check out ten, fifteen books every weekend. Though I gravitate toward picture books, my mother pushes me to start reading more advanced chapter books. \u201cJust the words themselves should be enough,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you can\u2019t think up the image on your own, then that\u2019s a failure of imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n

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