Though each segment could be read as a standalone, each is So Much a Part of the Landscape that Polly Dugan's work is best read all-in-a-burst. Little Brown & Company, 2014 More trust is required on the reader's part than, say, with Carrie Snyder's more prominently linked The Juliet
Readers who were left with an abundance of questions after reading "Chance" might turn to "Soon" believing that some will be answered. McClelland & Stewart, 2004 But Juliet's reappearance holds no promises of resolution; there are just as many new musings unaddressed. Most prominent are the questions outwardly posed at
A woman travelling to meet her lover. As I begin reading this story, my thoughts wander to this occurrence in other Munro stories. McClelland & Stewart, 2004 Was it “Providence” in which Rose plans to travel south, after her marriage breaks down, to meet her lover? Certainly in
With the publication of Crimes Against My Brother this month, I’m reminded of how little I have read of David Adams Richards’ work, only Nights Below Station Street (and the opening pages of about six other novels). Every time I pick up one of his books, I tell myself that
In collection reading, since Quarterly Stories: Winter 2013 I've read Susie Moloney's Things Withered, the latest installment of the Alice Munro reading project, B.J. Novak's One More Thing, and the most recent volume of Journey Prize stories. But mostly I've been dipping into single stories in recent months. Partly this was inspired by random samplings of the latest ReLit
