They say you never forget how to ride a bike, but you don’t necessarily remember how to ride it well. Since my first apartment at the age of 18, I have lived someplace with a set of stairs between my bike and the ground. And if my bike was
My experiment with reading-stories-in-sevens continues. This group of seven, pictured alongside, includes fiction by Liliana Colanzi, Anne Enright, Mary Gaitskill, Catherine Lacey, Weike Wang, and Paul Yoon (and whoever is in that issue with the adorbs cat cover). Are these writers you’ve read? I’ve heard of all but the
If Letty was invited to Christina Stead’s birthday party, preparations would be extensive. Clothing, accessories, the gift: everything would have to be “just so”. (Stead was born OTD in 1902; she died March 31, 1983.) When Letty needs to find an apartment in New York City, however, she makes
It was 2019, when last I wrote about Marie-Claire Blais here: about A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (Trans. Derek Coltman) for the #1965Club. It’s a skinny little novel, Emmanuel is a skinny little kid: it’s a powerful story about the forces that shape us, from family to
Anyone fond of linked narratives will warm to the idea that Québécois writer Marcel Tremblay has written these six Mont-Royal novels to illuminate the characters that regularly figure in his plays. In long-fiction, readers have a glimpse into their thoughts and feelings. We are not only witnessing dialogues and
