The Merry Spinster aside, I’m not a huge short story person. I like something I can dive into that develops over time and establishes characters to come back to, etc. So Sour Heart was probably not going to knock it out of the park for me. I don’t appreciate short stories because I just don’t know what it is I’m meant to be appreciating – what in it I should be looking for. And looking back, I’m not really sure what I read. Full disclosure – this […]
These kids have death wishes. It’s always the ones born with the right to live who want to die.
This story collection has a lot going against it in terms of me liking it. For one, it’s a whole New Kid in Town, NYC scene, heavy promotion by writers who I DO NOT TRUST (eg Lena Dunham, but she’s not alone on this one). It’s possibly topical. So for example, I read no fewer than three novels last year about trans-racial adoption especially by Asian-American writers. And so sometimes, the hop new thing and topical writing forces young/up and coming writers into a kind […]