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
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
Jonathan Safran Foer "Here We Aren't, So Quickly" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" As with Joshua Ferris, I've read Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but have not read his more famous debut, Everything is Illuminated. It wasn't because I didn't want
Joshua Ferris "The Pilot" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" Joshua Ferris' first novel, was published in 2007 (And Then We Came to the End), and his second (The Unnamed) earlier this year. Unlike most people, I've read his second but not his first (although I hope to
