Category: New Yorker 2007

>I don’t have much sympathy for Ed, an out-of-work writer in Hollywood who doesn’t seem to know where to turn. He’s about to lose…

>This is the story of two sisters, Fiona, the narrator, and Marie. The girls have limited prospects although Fiona, who works as a bank…

>Marguerite Duras is an acquired taste, one that I do not yet possess, although I’ve read a number of her stories and a couple…

>Lianne and Keith have been separated for a year and a half when the World Trade Center, where Keith works, is attacked. He has…

>The narrator of Roddy Doyle’s “Teaching” has been teaching for 23 years and he’s not just burned out and dried up, he’s completely empty….

>I expect most men will not like this story (“Playdate” by Kate Walbert); I didn’t. For one thing, men are mostly absent from it….

>As a non-New Yorker, I think New Yorker stories are better when the characters find a reason to be somewhere other than New York….

>The story is about postcards mailed by the narrator’s father from all over the world (“See the other side!). She visits one of these…

>A couple is happily married, and yet . . . the husband is irritated. The wife makes innocent comments, asks ordinary questions, but he…