This is my first encounter with Mary Gordon. Separation was first published in Antæus sometime in 1990. We will encounter Mary again as ...

The Custodian first appeared in The New Yorker in the May 12 th 1990 edition. We’ll encounter another story by Eisenberg in the 2004 B...

This was a very nice story to welcome me back to this collection of shorts. The struggle to read these stories continues. Life…li...

Millicent Dillon gives hope to those that have stories in them but wait until their later years to let them out. She started down the p...

Is started reading this story about a month ago – got about 1/3 of the way through and set it aside. I can’t remember why – life, I sup...

I don’t think I’ve yet encountered in this project a story with such a focus on a character and the character’s family dealing with th...

It’s been 9 years. My first entry on this blog was on May 29, 2008 . It was a simple introduction outlining my goals. As is my habit ...