This Week in Short Fiction
It seems impossible to say that someone was quietly assembling a story collection over a decade and a half when they’ve been publishing each of the stories one by one over at a little place called The...
View ArticleMagical Thinking
When quizzed on his characters’ romantic proclivities, Haruki Murakami errs towards empathy:I occasionally think that, in our heart of hearts, we all may be seeking situations like this one—where our...
View ArticleApollo Revisited
Tom Hanks (yeah, that one), lands his short fiction debut over at the New Yorker:I’ve been around great storytellers all my life and, like an enthusiastic student, I want to tell some of my own. And I...
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It’s a week of New York stories. First, in honor of St. Pat and maybe too those of us still a little rocked by the Daylight Savings shift, note should be made of “Sleep” by Colm Tóibín, which appeared...
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Over at the New Yorker, Alejandro Zambra has a piece of post-fiction prose from his collection Facsímil; it’s a parody on the entire notion of education. Read Zambra’s thoughts on the piece, and the...
View ArticleTropical Islands of Privilege
Over at the New Yorker, Ottessa Moshfegh has a new short story, “The Beach Boy.” Moshfegh also sat down with Deborah Treisman to talk further about her writing:Isn’t it hilarious when people are blind...
View ArticleMiracle and Magic
Check out Deborah Treisman in lively conversation with Lara Vapnyar on the “miracle of a New York City adventure,” the bewitching, wish-granting power of Leonard Cohen’s songs, and Russian...
View ArticleEtger Keret on Racism and Parenting
In a primal sense, racism involves favoring the people who are closest to you genetically. It is funny how most liberal left-wingers (well, me, at least) would never think of not hiring someone because...
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Notable NYC: 6/17–6/23
Sunday 6/18: Sherman Alexie presents his memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. WORD Jersey City, 5 p.m., free. Monday 6/19: Arundhati Roy presents The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. BAM, 7:30 p.m.,...
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Notable Online: 4/18–4/24
Sunday 4/18: Ed Baptist, Ashaki Jackson, I.S. Jones, Kristin Palm, and Alison Stine join the First Person Plural Reading Series, with host by Stacy Parker Le Melle. 6 p.m. Zoom, EDT, free. Chang-rae...
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