Books For The Summer Travel Itch
Now that it’s summertime, one in three people who shop at my bookstore are looking for travel guides, phrase books, travelogues or history books about some enticing destination.Yesterday a woman bought...
View ArticleThis Week in Short Fiction
Remember Elizabeth Strout’s 2008 Pulitzer-prize winning novel in stories Olive Kitteridge? What if Olive could come to life in a film adaptation? Man. In a perfect world, probably Frances McDormand...
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This Week in Short Fiction: Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
“The world is not magical. We make it magical all of a sudden inside us, and nobody finds out until many years later.” So wrote Silvina Ocampo from her home in Buenos Aires in 1987. With the arrival...
View ArticleA High Wind Elsewhere
The Oyster Review caught up with Edwin Frank, the NYRB Classics publisher of forgotten works from the 50s—and the 70s, 80s, and 90s.Related Posts:This Week in Short Fiction: Thus Were Their Faces by...
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Hill by Jean Giono
It is a travesty that Hill has struggled to remain in print in America. Unsentimental, sometimes absurd, but always a pleasure, Hill was originally published in French in 1929, and it’s been translated...
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