story: The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street
author: Mavis Gallant
year: 1963, originally; 2002 collection (reprint)
where: mon bureau
note: the title of this collection comes from the fact that Gallant wrote these stories in Paris, but they are set in many places
a line: “His social compass was out of order because the others couldn’t tell Peter and Agnes apart.”
samantha Neugebauer 