First of all, I just found this totally rad display of Julie Orringer’s writing notebooks. It’s beyond rad.
Second of all, I finished reading Ms. Orringer’s How to Breathe Underwater last night. It’s a stunning, beautiful collection of short stories. So utterly fantastic that it makes me sad that so many people don’t read short [...]
Feb 02 2005
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the first book of 2005 to give me the SHIVERS
Jan 05 2005
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
Somewhere in the back of my mind I have decided that Best American Nonrequired Reading is somehow the ugly little sister of Best American Short Stories. In this back place of my mind, the stories in Nonrequired were almost, but not quite good enough for Best American. Maybe it’s because in writing class we [...]
