A busy week here at the Deal Me In 2014 Offices!
RANDOM SHORT STORY NEWS:
Latest on potential publication of “new” Salinger work: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/28/jd-salinger-stories-published-70-years-out-of-print
Have you heard of “Teffi?” I hadn’t. http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Biblio/Detail.aspx?blogId=1273
And we thought we were doing good to read 52 stories a year? How about 4,000?(!) http://lighthouseblog.org/2014/07/28/member-dispatch-heidi-pitlor-and-the-transcendent-american-short-story/
Are short stories “Literary palate-cleansers?” http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2014/08/need_a_break_take_a_bite_out_of_nyc3.html
THIS WEEK’S DEAL ME IN POSTS
Another blogger is joining the Deal Me In challenge! Bellezza of Dolce Bellezza has created a list. Check out her intro post – and way cool picture – at http://www.dolcebellezza.net/2014/07/deal-me-in-challenge-better-late-than.html
James reads Grace Paley and Raymond Chandler and shares impressions on their stories, “Come On, Ye Sons of Art” and “No Crime in the Mountains” http://jamesreadsbooks.com/2014/07/28/raymond-chandler-vs-grace-paley/#comments
I read Gertrude Atherton’s “The Bell in the Fog” (Atherton was recommended to me by Paula of “Paula Cappa’s blog”) http://paulacappa.wordpress.com/ I haven’t finished my post yet ’cause I left my notes at the office Friday.
Dale enjoyed another Herman Melville story, this time tackling “The Encantadas” http://mirrorwithclouds.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/herman-melville-the-encantadas/
Randall posts about William Gay’s “Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You?” http://timeenuf.blogspot.com/2014/08/where-will-you-go-when-your-skin-cannot.html
Katherine’s David Copperfield anthologies continue to (finally) live up to her expectations, this week with Tad Williams’ story “The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of” http://katenread.wordpress.com/2014/08/02/deal-me-in-week-31-the-stuff-that-dreams-are-made-of/
Candiss is back and shares her thoughts on Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain” http://readthegamut.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/deal-me-in-challenge-story-31-bullet-in-the-brain-by-tobias-wolff/ (This story is DMI2014’s fifth “twin,” as James also covered it in May; in case you missed it, his take is at http://jamesreadsbooks.com/2014/05/13/henry-james-vs-tobias-wolff-a-deal-me-in-short-story-chalenge/ )
Bellezza posts about “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa http://www.dolcebellezza.net/2014/08/in-grove-by-ryunosuke-akutagawa.html#.U97E7cu9KSM
I think that’s it for this week. Hope I didn’t miss anybody. (As always feel free to add an additional link in the comments). See you next time!
