Hempelian Moods; My Friend’s Fancy Book Deal
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel has converted me back to reading short stories. Where would you go next after Hempel? Isn’t she good! If you want to expand on that Hempelian mood of yours, I...
View ArticleGary Lutz on ‘Divorcer’
Gary Lutz is a wholly original writer of the short story. The first thing one notices are his startling sentences, like this one from the title story of his new collection, Divorcer: “It was in a...
View ArticleHempelian Moods; My Friend’s Fancy Book Deal
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel has converted me back to reading short stories. Where would you go next after Hempel? Isn’t she good! If you want to expand on that Hempelian mood of yours, I...
View ArticleGary Lutz on ‘Divorcer’
(photo: Carol L. Steen) Gary Lutz is a wholly original writer of the short story. The first thing one notices are his startling sentences, like this one from the title story of his new collection,...
View ArticleOther People’s Partings
Fall River, Massachusetts. Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress. So many accounts of Chekhov’s death, many of them exaggerated, some outright bogus. The only indisputable thing is that he...
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