Day: December 27, 2008

December 27, 2008

>10 Books to Read Before . . .

>. . . you know. I just saw a list (here, but I don’t know how long the link will work) that purportedly is…
December 27, 2008

>4 Days Left to Vote

>There are just 4 days left to vote for the 2008 New Yorker Story of the Year. See Perpetual Folly: Vote for New Yorker…
December 27, 2008

>The New Yorker: “The Gangsters” by Colson Whitehead

>It seems as though the magazine saved the best for last. Not only is this a gripping story of two young brothers—who are close…
December 27, 2008

>The New Yorker: “Meeting with Enrique Lihn” by Roberto Bolaño

>This is the one story in this double issue that I didn’t love. And the main reason for not liking it is that the…
December 27, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Some Women" by Alice Munro

>This is a retrospective story that does a great job of contrasting the present with the memory. The narrator at one point compares a…
December 27, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Another Manhattan" by Donald Antrim

>With one exception—and I suspect some may quarrel with me about that—the stories in the Winter Fiction Issue (December 22 & 29) are among…