Who wouldn't want to spend the winter in Paris? Maud was in Paris starving and freezing as an art student when Tanya, a wealthy woman, befriended her and helped Maud obtain a position in a home to take care of a young lady.Maud found out the accommodations brought about more than a warm place t...
Those first stories I read at the beginning is just not my type.
There are twenty stories in this collection. I rated each story individually, added up the ratings for all the stories, divided by twenty, and got 2.92. So three stars it is for the lot. "The Palace Thief" by Ethan Canin is the only five-star story in the collection. There is more depth and gravitas...
What are writers like? What makes them different? On goodreads, for example, they will be the people that write their 'about me' sections in the third person. However, I had a feeling there must be more to that. When I was younger I thought writers were an entirely different caste of people. You can...
Art of Translation #4 & #5 are contained here, and while the fiction is good and all (plus the first part of a new serialized novel), these interviews were the high point.