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Aug 24, 2008 07:32 PM “This little green soul of his” by Stefan Beck
Five of my favorite words: new fiction by Tobias Wolff. “Awake,” a story in the current New Yorker, isn’t quite up to the standard of Wolff’s best, but it’s well worth a read. Speaking broadly and simply, it’s about—as is so much of his writing—the perils of growing up:
Speaking of New Yorker fiction, I’m reminded to recommend this curiously chilling story by Joshua Ferris, whose debut novel, Then We Came to the End, was, I think, one of last year’s best.
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