>One Story #95

>“Balloon Night” by Tom Barbash is about Timkin, a man whose wife has left him for no apparent reason, right before their annual party…

>On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

> The winner of the Man Booker Prize will be announced next week, but in anticipation I came across this snippet of interview with…

>And the winner is . . .

>. . . not me! Opium Magazine has announced the winner of the 500-word memoir contest judged by Daniel Handler. I didn’t win, but…

>Bat Segundo

>Several new installments of the Bat Segundo Show are now live, including interviews with George Saunders, Chimamanda Adichie and Katha Pollitt. Lots to listen…

>The New Yorker: "The Insufferable Gaucho" by Roberto Bolaño

>In this story, after a realistic beginning in which the lawyer Pereda’s life in Buenos Aires is told – his wife, his children, his…