Category: New Yorker 2011

May 10, 2011

>Short Story Month 2011: The New Yorker — Michael Ondaatje (#ssm2011)

> May 16, 2011: “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje I liked this fiction a lot—Ondaatje is a great writer—but it’s not a short…
May 3, 2011

>Short Story Month 2011: The New Yorker — Donald Antrim (#ssm2011)

> May 9, 2011: “He Knew” by Donald Antrim Whatta ya know? A story about New York in The New Yorker!  This one involves…
April 30, 2011

>The New Yorker: "Deniers" by Sam Lipsyte

> On the plus side, the story is available to read for free, at least for now. Get ´em while they’re hot. And the…
April 21, 2011

>The New Yorker: "The Good Samaritan" by Thomas McGuane

> I can’t say that I loved this story, but I did love some things about it.  First, it employs a classic “stranger comes…
April 11, 2011

>Among the ‘Unsavvy’ by John Warner – The Morning News

> What actually goes on at The New Yorker? Among the ‘Unsavvy’ by John Warner – The Morning News (The linked article is from…
April 8, 2011

>The New Yorker: "The Goo Book" by Keith Ridgway

> I think I like this story more having read the brief interview with Ridgway in which we learn that the characters of Hawthorn and…
March 31, 2011

>The New Yorker: "Atria" by Ramona Ausubel

> I didn’t care for this one much, and I think the reason for that is I don’t understand why Hazel does what she…
March 23, 2011

>The New Yorker: "U.F.O. in Kushiro" by Haruki Murakami

> This story is only available to subscribers, but then it’s a re-run from 10 years ago. The story carries a note from the…
March 16, 2011

>The New Yorker: "Rollingwood" by Ben Marcus

> Ben Marcus has a new novel coming out next year, The Flame Alphabet, but from what I’ve read about that book, this story…
March 13, 2011

>The New Yorker: "Going for a Beer" by Robert Coover

> I may be referring to this story for years to come for the brilliant way time passes in every sentence. The point of…