Remember back when many of the country’s finest weeklies regularly included top-drawer short fiction? Neither do I, but at least The New Yorker still provides this valuable service. And as to their recent offerings, Joyce Carol Oates’ “Spider Boy” (in the September 20 issue) is one of the better short stories they have included in some time.
Posted by armand at September 25, 2004 01:31 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Books