A story of an Indian ya pair who weds an older man and the child they adopt together.
Author
Madhuri Vijay
Publication
The New Yorker, August 17 2020
Date Read
August 15, 2020
Heirlooms
A story of a gay black man who unwilling long shares an apartment with his Japanese lovers mom.
Author
Bryan Washington
Publication
The New Yorker Aug 3 & 10, 2020
Date Read
August 2, 2020
Pursuit as Happiness
One more Hemingway story…this one had never been published until now. It’s Hemingway marlin fishing with two other men. They pursue a large Marlin and there’s some really great details about that encounter.
Author
Ernest Hemingway
Publication
The New Yorker, June 8 & 15, 2020
Date Read
June 6th, 2020
The Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor
The story of an art collector traveling to various antique shops for treasures. He finds a beautiful portrait of a young doctor. The curator of the small shop tells the tale of the young country doctor who founds himself invested in a new town at the time Cholera hit with a vengeance. A beautiful tale of the heroic efforts of healthcare workers even in the face of extreme ignorance, both of themselves and their patients.
This is likely the most timely of stories too, since we’re currently experiencing our own health crisis. Likely the best story I’ve read this year.
Author
Allan Gurganus
Publication
The New Yorker, May 4, 2020
Date Read
May 9th, 2020
Night Swim
It’s not often that I find a story that spans about ten minutes time. This is one of those. A mother taking her son to a sleepover and the journey takes her back to before she was a mother, to a night she took a swim. Short.Engaging. Relatable.
Author
Anne Enright
Publication
The New Yorker, March 9, 2020
Date Read
March 8, 2020