Whenever someone complains about how the second-person point of view just doesn’t work for them, I think they should give Jamaica Kincaid’s short story Girl a solid read.
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Reading Log on Cockroaches In Autumn by Lydia Davis
There is one particular short story in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis that I’ve adored since the very first time I read it, called Cockroaches in Autumn.
Reading Log on The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar
There is a linguistic thread that runs through The Truth About Owls that I keep catching myself thinking about.
Silent Hunger
Surviving Exile in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s “Summer Pudding” Throughout the canon of the Irish short story in the twenty-first century, special attention is given to the nature of Irish identity. From James Joyce, Frank O’Connor, to Éilís Ní
Reading Log on ‘Blood and Water’ by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
Stories about mental illness are something I seek out, particularly. I may be a little harsh in these notes towards the author, not because I believe the author is wrong or the story is terrible, but because the treatment of
Notes on Clay, a short story by James Joyce
21 Nov 2014: These notes were first published on the 9th of May 2013. I have migrated them back out of the black void of the internet, and here they are, slightly edited for clarity. I first read this story