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New in Paperback: Novels from Marilynne Robinson and Per Petterson and...
Home, Marilynne Robinson‘s follow-up to her 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gilead, tells the story of Jack Boughton, the miscreant prodigal son of Reverend Boughton (narrator of Gilead). Jack...
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“Home”— George Saunders
From “Home,” a new George Saunders story in The New Yorker—- Like in the old days, I came out of the dry creek behind the house and did my little tap on the kitchen window. “Get in here, you,” Ma said....
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Book Acquired, 2.04.2012 — Cataclysm Baby
Okay, this one looks pretty cool—Cataclysm Baby by Matt Bell from indie Mud Luscious Press. More to come. Bell’s site describes the book as “twenty-six post-apocalyptic parenting stories, all narrated...
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“On Eating and Drinking”— Jerome K. Jerome
I always was fond of eating and drinking, even as a child—especially eating, in those early days. I had an appetite then, also a digestion. I remember a dull-eyed, livid-complexioned gentleman coming...
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“The Easter Egg”— Saki
“The Easter Egg” by Saki It was distinctly hard lines for Lady Barbara, who came of good fighting stock, and was one of the bravest women of her generation, that her son should be so undisguisedly a...
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William Faulkner’s Hot Toddy
Faulkner’s favorite drink is often listed as the julep, which is probably correct: his house in Oxford still displays his beloved metal julep cup. But his old standby was the toddy, which he describes...
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“A Luckless Santa Claus”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“A Luckless Santa Claus” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Miss Harmon was responsible for the whole thing. If it had not been for her foolish whim, Talbot would not have made a fool of himself, and–but I am...
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