An excerpt from Sally Rooney’s next novel. The story follows Ivan a twenty two year old chess prodigy and his love interest Margaret.
Author
Sally Rooney
Publication
The New Yorker, July 8 & 15, 2024
Date Read
July 4, 2024
Where are you going, where have you been?
I had to reread this classic short story. I remember Arnold Friend, but he seemed more alive the last time I read it. This time he was a bit comical, not nearly as scary as he had been the first time—still a terrible fate for Connie.
Author
Joyce Carol Oates
Publication
The Ontario Review, 1991
Date Read
June 27, 2024
Chicago on the Seine
A story of an American living in Paris working in the embassy, receiving word of an American’s death, and a woman attending a conference. The woman’s daughter phones to plead for someone to stay with her mother’s dead body overnight — she wants someone to guide the mother’s ghost, afraid she’ll be lost roaming forever.
Author
Camille Bordas
Publication
The New Yorker, June 17 2024
Date Read
June 25, 2024
The Buggy
A man sees a buggy empty at the edges of the ocean. He watches and assesses the situation and relives his parenthood in moments leading up to the end. Captivating.
Author
Roddy Doyle
Publication
The New Yorker, June 24, 2024
Date Read
June 19, 2024
Crown Heights North
The inner thoughts of a dead man. Very close narrative of a fifties man who recently died and decided to go on runs around a local park.
Author
Rivka Galchen
Publication
The New Yorker, January 1&8, 2024
Date Read
January 6, 2024