Edification – Newsletter #83 – August 15, 2021 Dear Reader, Happy Sunday! I’ve been reading this week: First, I started Maggie Brown & Others, a collection of stories by Peter Orner. Orner is new to me, but his style feels familiarly post-war American: spare, cutting, shot through with a kind of off-page dread – immobility in the midst of careening change. (His first story, “The Deer,” is about a child powerlessly witnessing a deer powerlessly trapped in muck.)
Edification – Quiet things, soaring things
Edification – Quiet things, soaring things
Edification – Quiet things, soaring things
Edification – Newsletter #83 – August 15, 2021 Dear Reader, Happy Sunday! I’ve been reading this week: First, I started Maggie Brown & Others, a collection of stories by Peter Orner. Orner is new to me, but his style feels familiarly post-war American: spare, cutting, shot through with a kind of off-page dread – immobility in the midst of careening change. (His first story, “The Deer,” is about a child powerlessly witnessing a deer powerlessly trapped in muck.)