Aryn Kyle's Boys and Girls Like You and Me Scribner, 2010 One of my first favourite short story collections was Bronwen Wallace's People You Could Trust Your Life To and I loved it to bits because it felt so real. Like the text on its pages could have leapt up,
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
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
Remember how I said that I started reading these stories because I wanted to get ahead of the reading game? That The New Yorker's list of 20Under40 was kind of a random pick for me to try to redirect my habit of ignoring similar lists (yes, I even mentioned Granta's
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
