{"id":30422,"date":"2024-09-09T12:24:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=30422"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:38:09","slug":"bryan-washington-last-coffeehouse-on-travis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2024\/09\/09\/bryan-washington-last-coffeehouse-on-travis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Washington: “Last Coffeehouse on Travis”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Last Coffeehouse on Travis”<\/strong><\/span>
by Bryan Washington<\/span>
from the September 16, 2024 issue of The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are plenty of authors whose work I’ve been introduced to in The New Yorker<\/em> and whose other work I’ve wanted to follow because I enjoyed it so much but . . . whose other work I’ve still not read. Bryan Washington is one of these authors. I have really enjoyed his stories, but to date I’ve read only what has been published in this magazine over the past five or so years. He has published two novels in that time — Memorial and Family Meal — and I really want to get to them sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, though, we have a new story, “Last Coffeehouse on Travis,” and here is how it begins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

For a few months, I stayed with my aunt\u2019s friend in Midtown, back when she could still afford to live there. Now it\u2019s filled with condos, and they\u2019re all a trillion dollars a month. But, in those days, she owned the house, and also a coffeehouse a few blocks away.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was too broke to pay rent, so every morning saw me behind the counter. This was the arrangement. I\u2019d just broken up with my ex\u2014a doctor with legible handwriting, an ungenerous top\u2014because he was moving to Austin and I wasn\u2019t down to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I look forward to reading it and to reading your thoughts! Please share them below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Bryan Washington’s “Last Coffeehouse on Travis.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31111,"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":[1289,94],"tags":[1461],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-30422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bryan-washington","category-new-yorker-fiction","tag-2024-new-yorker-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/September-16-2024-Featured-Image.jpg?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-7UG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30422","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=30422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31114,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30422\/revisions\/31114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30422"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}