Category: New Yorker 2009

January 1, 2010

>2009 New Yorker Story of the Year: And the Winner is . . .

>The polls have closed and the votes have been counted. We have a tie! Sharing the New Yorker Story of the Year honor for…
December 28, 2009

>Vote for the New Yorker Story of the Year — Just 4 days left!

>Please vote for your favorite New Yorker short story for 2009 by selecting one story from the poll in the right sidebar of this…
December 24, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Diary of an Interesting Year" by Helen Simpson

>I suppose it’s possible to write an original, successful dystopian story, but this one doesn’t work. Or maybe it does exactly what it seems…
December 22, 2009

>Vote for the 2009 New Yorker Story of the Year

>It’s time to select the 2009 New Yorker Story of the Year. The process is a little different this year. In previous years I…
December 9, 2009

>The New Yorker: "All That" by David Foster Wallace

>Is it safe to assume that this “story” is an excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel, The Pale King, due out in 2011?…
December 3, 2009

>The New Yorker: "The Use of Poetry" by Ian McEwan

>The contributor notes for this issue tell us that McEwan has a new novel, Solar, due out in the spring. And while once again…
November 30, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Midnight in Dostoevsky" by Don DeLillo

>This story is going directly onto my top-ten list for the year. I enjoyed this more than any DeLillo I’ve read, and I’m going…
November 24, 2009

>The New Yorker Story of the Year — 2009: Nominations are Open

>For the past couple of years I have been commenting on each piece of fiction appearing in The New Yorker, and I’ve also been…
November 20, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Indianapolis (Highway 74)" by Sam Shepard

>Sam Shepard has a story collection coming out in January, called Day Out of Days, and I get the impression that it’s full of…
November 16, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Alone" by Yiyun Li

>I’m not sure what to make of this story. It’s skillfully written, but it seems to lack emotion. Or perhaps that’s the point? (But…