You can tell from the title of this story (in The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 summer feature issue) that this is a love story. Of sorts. If a somewhat one-sided love-story. Though that sounds depressing, so I hasten to say that it's not all romancey-doom-and-gloom. But it's not all
Nicola Beauman's A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39 (1983) Virago, 1984. Persephone No. 78, 2008. I'm certain that I've said this before, but this is one of my favourite kinds of books about books. Nicola Beauman's A Very Great Profession is obviously written out of a passion for
Rivka Galchen "The Entire Northern Side Was Covered with Fire" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" Because the narrator's voice grabbed hold after only the second paragraph... Because I like stories with fires in them... Because, even more than that, I like stories that consider where art
Philipp Meyer "What You Do Out Here, When You're Alone" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" That's why I started down this particular reading road, to sample the work of the ten writers whose names I did not recognize, like Philipp Meyer's, on the New Yorker's List
William Kotzwinkle The Bear Went Over the Mountain Henry Holt, 1996 This one came my way via a recommendation from Corey Redekop when I was chattering about bookish fiction. At first I was really excited about it, but, when I got my copy and saw the blurb on the back
