125. SHORT STORY MONDAY: Joshua Ferris and Jonathan Safran Foer
Officially, I am replacing Proverb Monday - after a year and 56 posts- with Short Story Monday hosted by The Book Mine Set . This is meant to monitor and motivate me to read the 100 short stories Kinna and I had set for ourselves. Today's set of stories are from The New Yorker June 14 & 21 2010. This Literary edition of the magazine features eight short stories from eight of magazines 20 under 40 lists . The forty includes some authors as Chimamanda Adichie, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nell Freudenberger, Phillip Meyer, John Ferris, ZZ Packer, Tea Obreht, C.E. Morgan, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum among others. I will be reviewing two of the eight short stories today. I will use this feature as an introduction to several authors I have never read before. The Pilot by Joshua Ferris Joshua Ferris's The Pilot is a story about a screenwriter recovering from alcoholism. Lawrence Himshell has tasted success before; however, excessive alcohol intake has seen him fal...