Cleaning house a bit tonight, I found one issue of The New Yorker sitting around, with a Tessa Hadley story in it ( Read more... )

I haven't posted any reviews in a while, and I can feel myself starting to lose track of which stories I've read. Uh-oh! Better get caught up!

"Honor" by Tessa Hadley (The New Yorker, Feb. 7, 2011): This story takes the form of a childhood memory recalled by a narrator long after the events in question are over. In this case, the narrator ( Read more... )

Here's a batch from The New Yorker:

37. Axis by Alice Munro, from the January 31, 2011 issue. As decemberthirty mentioned, there is always something deft about an Alice Munro short story. I've read a decent number of them in the past few years, and looking back over some of the reviews I've posted in this community over the years I can say that most of the time ( Read more... )

The first two can be heard on the audiobook Road Rage, narrated by Stephen Lang.

121. Duel by Richard Matheson  This is a classic of the horror genre.  Told from the point of view of a driver on a back California road, who ends up in a fight for control of the road with a trucker whose face and thoughts we never see.  I wasn't impressed with Lang's ( Read more... )

Attempting to catch up to where I should be, here are the most recent four stories I've read:

The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin, found at http://harelbarzilai.org/words/omelas.txt and recommended in this community first by
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