Archive for the 'Short Fiction' Category

Kelly Link: The Faery Handbag

Monday, May 30th, 2005

What a story — after reading it I just sat back and said: Wow. A curious family with a as curious family history, and a curious grandmother with a handbag, that doesn’t have an universe in it, but close. Baldeziwurlekistan is supposedly the place gradnmother Sofia comes from, with her handbag, and a Russian […]

Alice Munro: Meneseteung

Monday, May 30th, 2005

In her introduction to Best American Short Stories, 1989, Margaret Atwood mentions this one is, in her opinion, “one of Alice Munro’s best and, in the manner of its telling, quirkiest stories yet.” As of today, I haven’t read enough of Munro’s stories to say if I agree or disagree in this being one of […]