Over the past couple months I've been reading each story in The New Yorker, and some have been quite good. Some merely good. But all interesting and worth reading. As usual, the blog Mookse and the Gripes (the links below are to there) has excellent reviews and commentary on each of the stories. Here is a selection.
Monstro by Junot Diaz... I agree with the Mookse people... the style gets very annoying after awhile when the story doesn't actually go anywhere. But fun to read if, like me, puedes hablar Spanglish.
Referential by Lorrie Moore... it was obvious this was riffing off something, wish I were as smart as the Mookse people and remembered Nabokov's short story.
Sweet Dreams by Peter Stamm... wow... a complex and well-crafted meditation on what reality is... puts you right in that philosophical frame of mind that you want to be in before drifting off to sleep.
The Proxy Marriage by Maile Meloy.... a happy ending romantic love story though a little creepily obsessive... I think in the real world people get over each other.
Monstro by Junot Diaz... I agree with the Mookse people... the style gets very annoying after awhile when the story doesn't actually go anywhere. But fun to read if, like me, puedes hablar Spanglish.
Referential by Lorrie Moore... it was obvious this was riffing off something, wish I were as smart as the Mookse people and remembered Nabokov's short story.
Sweet Dreams by Peter Stamm... wow... a complex and well-crafted meditation on what reality is... puts you right in that philosophical frame of mind that you want to be in before drifting off to sleep.
The Proxy Marriage by Maile Meloy.... a happy ending romantic love story though a little creepily obsessive... I think in the real world people get over each other.
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