Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

November 14, 2019

The best book I’ve read in 2019 (so far, anyway). Strout’s stories are about individuals who are old, sick, damaged, …

Rounding out the past year

January 9, 2014

I closed 2013 by finishing a book that I’ve been picking up and putting down for months, as well as …

November 11, 2013

A week after the announcement that Alice Munro had won the Nobel Prize for her beautiful, evocative short stories, I …

February 10, 2013

Thanks to Blizzard Nemo, I’ve had the opportunity to curl up with four books, bouncing back and forth as the …

December 19, 2012

Most of us know Flannery O’Connor from her classic short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (1953), the …

August 10, 2012

I love how A.S. Byatt writes—and I haven’t read enough of her work, as a glance at her list of …

June 24, 2012

Saints and Sinners is a collection of Edna O’Brien’s recent short stories. I’ve read two of her novels—Wild Decembers (1999) …

February 24, 2012

A Study in Sherlock—edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger—brings together sixteen short stories inspired by Sherlock Holmes …