Jeffrey Eugenides' "Extreme Solitude" The New Yorker - June 7, 2010 issue There has been some chatter about magazine subscriptions lately (at Inklings and Pickle Me This) and that's gotten me feeling even a little more guilty about not keeping up with my "New Yorker" issues (as opposed to the
Ethel Wilson's Stories, Essays and Letters, Ed. David Stouck U of BC Press, 1987 If you are keenly interested in Ethel Wilson, you will definitely appreciate this volume, which does gather nine stories not published in her Mrs. Golightly collection, six essays, and selected correspondence from 1944 through 1974. And,
Mollie Panter-Downes' Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories Persephone No. 8 (1999) So you can choose to follow along with my bookish digression, or, you can do a quick online search on this collection and find many thorough reviews of and responses to it because -- both in and
The magazines I've chatted about here so far have been exclusively bookish; I think "The Walrus" is perfectly bookish, but it's also a magazine subscription that I can send to my father, who only reads "Time" and "Macleans". So it's a ::cough:: serious magazine, that's also serious about fiction. But
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians Ed. Michael Cart Overlook Press, 2002 I learned from The Heroine's Bookshelf that it's National Library Week in the U.S. so it seemed fitting to choose a short story for April from this collection, edited by Michael Cart: In the Stacks:
