Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. As we head into a presidential election year, Dante Alighieri’s famous inscription on the Gate of Hell seems appropriate. Once again, Frank Luntz –Republican pollster, strategist, consultant, and cunning linguist – is setting … Continue reading →
Short stories from the web. For daily updates follow #LunchTimeStories on Twitter. Elizabeth Benedict If I Could Speak Chinese Fred Bubbers Calvin’s Monster Truths Indian Summer Raymond Carver Why Don’t You Dance? Willa Cather Coming, Aphrodite! John Cheever The Swimmer … Continue reading →
Once again, John Gardner’s fictive dream, as articulated by novelist Ian McEwan. No one does psychological realism better than McEwan. There is no other art form that can envelop us so completely and embed emotions within us so deeply. We … Continue reading →
Part 1 of a short story cycle. Three stories about two neighbors who meet as young children and grow up together on Long Island during the late 60′s and early 70′s. The comforting and loving world they live in changes … Continue reading →
We began this week with the news that a new n-word-scrubbed edition of Huckleberry Finn is being published. The reaction in most places where literary people congregate was mostly negative. Huckleberry Finn has been considered controversial ever since it was … Continue reading →
