C.E. Morgan "Twins" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" The New Yorker's reviewer of C.E. Morgan's first novel, All the Living, wrote: "This lyrical tale of grief and gruelling love on a tobacco farm takes place in the mid-nineteen-eighties but, if not for glimpses of linoleum and
Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World Picador (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1990 Michael Cunningham forced my introduction to Virginia Woolf because I desperately wanted to read The Hours and, so, Mrs. Dalloway had to come first. The Hours has been a favourite contemporary novel ever since,
Keith Oatley's Therefore Choose Gooselane Editions, 2010 Therefore Choose is a tremendously accessible, memorable and relevant novel from Gooselane. If you've tried one of Keith Oatley's earlier novels (The Case of Emily V. published in 1993, A Natural History, published in 1998), you might think that a novel from him
Salvatore Scibona "The Kid" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 The New Yorker The kid? He's five years old and lost in an airport. And he's weeping. Incessently. Gesturing and wandering, barely forming words through his tears and, later, refusing to speak at all. Nurses and clerks and various airport
Banana Yoshimoto's Hardboiled and Hard Luck (1999) Trans. from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich (2005) This is the last of Banana Yoshimoto's works that have been translated into English that I had to read; if it had been the first of her works that I'd read, I don't think I'd
