The New Yorker

  • 300 short stories:: story 125

    story: Now More Than Ever  author: Zadie Smith year: 2018 where: Bologna, airport…delay delay delay note: this story mentions poké bowls, which I belatedly realized this June is a now a big deal in NYC…elsewhere too?  Also, I now know the plot of “A Place in the Sun”. a line: “I said, In our philosophy department at the university, we feel that, just as there are degrees of sin or error, there are degrees of sympathy. It’s not a zero-sum game, or it used not to be, in the past. Well, there’s your problem, Scout said. You’re two-faced, you’re looking the wrong way, and if you don’t watch out you’re going to find yourself beyond the pale.”

  • 300 short stories:: story 124

    story: Ghosts and Empties  author: Lauren Groff year: 2018 where: Paris, 11th arrondissement note: Wow, Groff has written a story about women walking, and joined the ranks of this great tradition of literature. Groff has some stories I really like–“At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”–and others I could leave; this is one to take, though all her work…