August 3, 2010 | Posted by Administrator
Stephen O’Connor’s Here Comes Another Lesson offers a rare virtue among short story collections: if one story isn’t what you’re looking for, chances are the next one will be. The sheer variety of narratives offered in this collection is virtuosic. O’Connor writes from such a multiplicity of voices and with such a wide spectrum of [...]
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July 29, 2010 | Posted by Administrator
Editor’s Note: This is the next installment in Wythe Marschall’s novella project. See his thoughts on the project here.
The Murderess
By Alexandros Papadiamantis
Translated by Peter Levi
New York Review of Books Classics, 2010
The Murderess does not look like a novella. Its central character—an old woman named Hadoula—is portrayed realistically; its structure is familiar—short, action-filled chapters; and [...]
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July 27, 2010 | Posted by Administrator
The title of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s forthcoming story collection, The Woman with the Bouquet, sounds like it might refer to a painting, and there is a quality to Mr.Schmitt’s writing that takes one back to a time when photography had yet to make the painted portrait obsolete. With this particular portrait, Mr. Schmitt [...]
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March 4, 2010 | Posted by Administrator
“Roisterous Calliope”: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
“I got an understanding of how terrible love can be. You wish you hated those people, your wife and children, because you know the things the world will do to them, because you have done some of those things yourself. It’s crazy-making, yet you cling to [...]
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December 31, 2009 | Posted by Administrator
“One Groove’s Difference”: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
“Maybe the Golden Fang had sailed on to its fate, gathering those who hadn’t found their way to shore deeper into whatever complications of evil, indifference, abuse, despair they needed to become even more themselves. Whoever they were. Maybe Shasta had escaped all that. Maybe she was [...]
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