Category: New Yorker 2010

August 30, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Science of Flight" by Yiyun Li

> In the Q&A with Yiyun Li she mentions she’s working on a novel about leave-taking. While she doesn’t say that this story is…
August 16, 2010

>The New Yorker: "Second Lives" by Daniel Alarcón

> According to the Q&A with Daniel Alarcón, this is an outtake from a novel the author is working on, but it seems to work…
August 12, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Train of Their Departure" by David Bezmozgis

> Begrudgingly, I have to admit that this excerpt from Bezmozgis’s novel in progress, The Free World, works pretty well as a short story….
August 4, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Blue Djinn" by Téa Obreht

> We’re not quite done with The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 series, but I think this one is my favorite of the bunch…
July 28, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Dredgeman’s Revelation" by Karen Russell

> Because the ending of this fiction is so odd, I was under the impression that it must be an excerpt from Russell’s forthcoming…
July 9, 2010

>The New Yorker: "An Honest Exit" by Dinaw Mengestu

> Here’s another installment in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 series, and yet again it isn’t a story. It’s an excerpt from Mengestu’s…
July 3, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Erlking" by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

> We know from the Q&A with Sarah Shun-lien Bynum that this story is based in some way on Goethe’s The Erlking. We have Kate and…
July 1, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Young Painters" by Nicole Krauss

> I liked this “story” a lot. It’s not a short story, of course. It’s an excerpt from Krauss’s forthcoming novel. I wonder if…
June 29, 2010

>The New Yorker: "Twins" by C.E. Morgan

> Whenever I discover that a New Yorker “story” is an excerpt from a book, I lose my enthusiasm for commenting on it, no…
June 29, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Kid" by Salvatore Scibona

> There’s a kid wandering around the Hamburg airport and various airline personnel are trying to figure out what his story is. They aren’t…
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