Lorrie Moore, one of America’s greatest short story writers, has a new novel, “I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home.” (Photo credit John Foley / Opale / Bridgeman Images / Courtesy of Knopf) Since her 1985 collection, “Self-Help,” Lorrie Moore has been acclaimed as among America’s greatest short story writers, but with “I […]
Carl Larsson’s Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in the forest via Wikimedia Commons This is one of those stories that begins with a female body,” opens Erica Berry’s evocative exploration of wolves, fear, and the female experience, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear . Though the body Berry speaks […]
1. My brother Robert and I grew up on Manhattan’s East Side. Some afternoons, we’d go to a deli—he’d get a stack of Genoa salami on an untoasted plain bagel—or to a diner for a hamburger. Usually, though, we’d stop in at the Ultimate Pizza, a below-ground hole in the wall on 57th and 1st. […]
