My goal this year is one short story a day, but I'll only post the "book version" (anthology or collection). I'll continue to include New Yorker issues, simply because it helps with the backlog. Speaking of which,
- NYer 12/4//23. (Teju Cole short story).
- NYer 11/13/23 (including a Clare Sestanovich ss, plus feature on Ridley Scott and review by Wood of House of Doors)
- Superman:Space Age by Russel and Allred. Clever use of one of the Infinite Earths, including a "retcon" to well, when it happened.
- Fantastic Four by Ryan North: Whatever Happened to the Fantastic Four. Accentuates the Johnny (Jonny?) is the worst (or his least favorite) and Dr. Susan Storm-Richards the best (his favorite). Reed a verbose explainer and Ben a simple, kind man (as always).
- Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter. Lots of text. Lots of pages with no text. Not great as a comic.
- NYer 12/18/23. Gopnick on comedy: Marx Bros=optimism; Tati=pessimsim; Keaton=stoicism; Chaplin=humanism. Larger point: "Comedy has a range as large as human feeling"
- NYer 10/17/22. Strange David Gilbert story "Come Softly To Me" plus Lydia Millet review.
- Planet of Exile. Secretly the story of how a genetic mutation led to the exiled Far born being assimilated (though it's never said)
- NYer 1/8/24. Next three all finished while travelling
- NYer 9/19/22
- NYer 3/21/22. Running count 7!
- NYer 4/17/23. Emahoy, the musical genius Ethiopian nun.
- NYer 10/2/23. Featuring "Bruises" by Graham Swift. Veteran pointed in right direction home.
- NYer 3/13/23. "Terriers are deranged animals who could probably teach us a lot about how brains pointlessly track small movements and changes; these traits of theirs far exceed those needed to hunt small rustling prey." Rivka Galchen, "How I Became a Vet."
- NYer 12/25/23. Games and comics. Longish comic on Patricia Highsmith.
- NYer 1/15/24. Smart double review of Frantz Fanon and Ian Fleming biographies.
- NYer 10/24/22. Wendell Pierce as Wally Loman.
- Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet. Fave scene: "'you have a lovely house/'so do you." They agreed. They both had lovely houses. They had bought them with money."
- NYer 8/15/22. Anthony Lane's review of Bodies Bodies Bodies: in most whodunnits you don't particularly care about who dies, but "I found myself actively willing the extinction of every single character, if possible in conspicuous agony."
- NYer 10/10/22. Gotta go, my Mom jeans and Dad jeans are here.
- NYer 1/22/24. Final count-16!
