The Harvest Moon by Molly Ringwald
from When It Happens to You by Molly Ringwald It took only a few minutes to realize that Ms. Ringwald can write, but I was hesitant just the same.…
Read Morefrom When It Happens to You by Molly Ringwald It took only a few minutes to realize that Ms. Ringwald can write, but I was hesitant just the same.…
Read MoreI had thought that the third person narrative voice was prosaic, the most obvious way to tell a story. But it’s like having a dozen eggs in your kitchen.…
Read MoreIt’s been a really long time since I’ve sat down to read a story in The New Yorker. Justin Taylor has been skirting the edges of my literary paradigm for a long time, years almost.…
Read MoreJC: As A Hologram for the King opens, Alan Clay has, as many literary protagonists do, arrived at a moment of truth.…
Read MoreI fell in love with A.M. Homes, and to know me is to know I love her writing almost as much as Zadie Smith’s work.…
Read MoreNorah is sitting behind the wheel in a state. Her live-in boyfriend, Jakob, is beside her. The kids, one offspring from each partner are in the back seat.…
Read MoreDH: It’s a strange thing to consider the life of a character as an obituary. In the first section of Zadie Smith’s NW, called “Visitation”, the local buzz of the day is that a 32 year-old man named Felix was killed on the street in a mugging.…
Read MoreMy collection grew. I turned to guy fiction for a long time, Paul Auster, Tim O’Brien, Raymond Carver, and Richard Ford.…
Read MoreI started collecting contemporary American fiction about twenty years ago. I was living in a small closet apartment on 28th and Broadway in NYC; the bathroom was down the hall.…
Read MorePat Barker writes historical fiction about the World War I period in England that doesn’t descend into formulaic genre. One key to her literary success is her gift for unlocking complex people.…
Read MoreYou may have read the same newspaper article that I did, a few years ago, about the elderly woman in Athens who was eaten by her cats.…
Read MoreThe Paris Review is putting together a collection of short stories called Object Lessons: the Paris Review presents The Art of the Short Story.…
Read MoreJR: DH and I have decided to take this book in a few parts, and start with the first section, Visitation.…
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