Doug Harris, You Comma Idiot Gooselane Editions, 2010 - You are the kind of reader who doesn't mind being addressed as you. For more than 300 pages. - You have no fundamental objections to any of the following words appearing in a story: ass, itching, shitty, dick, bitches, fuck, hell,
Sarah Schun-Lien Bynum "The Erlking" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 July 5, 2010 "The New Yorker" This short story felt like a cobbler baked with ingredients courtesy of Alice Hoffman, Tom Perotta, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Oh, I know: some people hate it when someone says that a
Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections Harper, 2001 They splotch the busy reader's bookshelf: those oversized contemporary novels that you haven't read yet. You expect Dickens and Trollope and Tolstoy to span the reading weeks, but you expect contemporary novels to be more portable, more succinct, more zip-through-able. It makes it harder
Good Fiction Guide, Ed. Jane Rogers 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005 Booklist: Sexual Politics by Maureen Freely Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1873-7) Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) Madeleine Bourdouxhe's Marie (1943; 1997 English translation) Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) James
Nicole Krauss "The Young Painters" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June 28, 2010 "The New Yorker" Mr. B.I.P. and I read this story together, and when we were done, he asked "Do the short stories you read always leave you with that many questions at the end?" No, they don't.
