Consecutio temporum

Peter Stamm, Wir fliegen из одноимённого сборника

( лапша и самолёты )

Garrison Keillor, Plainfolks / Local Family Keeps Son Happy (Happy to Be Here)

( fancy eggs recipe )

Marcel Schwob, Préface / Frate Dolcino (Vies imaginaires)

( filthy rumours )

Eudora Welty, The Wide Net (The Wide Net and Other Stories)

( blizzard, brawls and fried fish )

F.S.Fitzgerald, Crazy Sunday

( telephones and automobiles )

John O'Hara, The Assistant (New York Stories)

( los ricos y los perdidos )


Antonio Tabucchi, Piccoli equivoci senza importanza из одноимённого сборника

( the best of youth )

Alice Munro, The Office (Dance of the Happy Shades)

( unscrewing the light )

Random Reading brought some more rants and praises, and some things I just don't remember anymore. What I made notes about (first, elaborate and full of name-droppings, then dismissive and neglectful) was:

1. Grace Paley, "The Immigrant Story" and "An Irrevocable Diameter"
( praise )

2. Joan Wickersham, "* * * * The News from Spain" from the collection "The News from Spain"
( rant )

3. Janet Desaulniers, "Where We All Should Have Been" from "What You've Been Missing"
( praise )

4. Julie Hayden, "A Touch of Nature" from "The Lists of the Past"
( praise )

5. Alexander Kluge, a selection from "Tür an Tür mit einem anderen Leben"
( whatever )

6. Marcel Schwob, "La psychologie du bonneteau" from "Dialogues d'utopie" and "Cecco Angiolieri" from "Vies imaginaires"
( praise )

7. Richard Ford, "Puppy" from "A Multitude of Sins"
( praise (and some rant) )

8. Margaret Atwood, "Weight" from "Wilderness Tips"
( praise? )

9. Carson McCullers, "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" and "A Domestic Dilemma"
( praise )

10. Garrison Keillor,
- WLT (The Edgar Era)
- Around the Horne
- The New Baseball
- How Are the Legs, Sam?
- How It Was in America a Week Ago Tuesday
- Nana Hami ba Reba
- The Lowliest Bush a Purple Sage Would Be
( praise )

11. George Saunders, Victory Lap from "Tenth of December"
( praise )

12. Cynthia Ozick, Dictation from "Collected Stories"
( praise but rant )

13. Jamie Quatro, 1.7 to Tennessee from "I Want to Show You More"
( praise or rant )

14. William Trevor, Rose Wept
( praise )

15. Lorrie Moore, Referential from "Bark"
( rant )

16. Vandana Singh, Ambiguity Machines from "Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories"
( rant )

17. Shirley Hazzard, The Picnic from "Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories"
( praise but not really )