Three from recent issues of The New Yorker. In mid-June, the magazine started featuring "20 Under 40," twenty writers under the age of 40. It seems this will run through the fall. I'm behind on my New Yorker reading, and I'm not approaching the stories in any kind of order. Just whatever's next on the pile.

268. The Entire Northern Side Was Covered ( Read more... )

Three more from recent issues of The New Yorker, all available on http://www.newyorker.com/fiction

#75: The Bell Ringer by John Burnside (March 17, 2008 issue).   A woman who grew up in a small town in the United Kingdom where her father had immigrated to from Slovakia realized one cold ( Read more... )