Stories We Love: “The Right Company” by Megan Mayhew Bergman
I love Megan Mayhew Bergman’s story “The Right Company” from her collection Birds of a Lesser Paradise.
I love Megan Mayhew Bergman’s story “The Right Company” from her collection Birds of a Lesser Paradise.
Matthew Batt reviews Halina Duraj’s The Family Cannon: “What binds it is the fierce and loyal will of the one who knows she has to keep weaving these stray bits of stick and story and trash and grass back together to make us who we are—family.”
Twenty years after its initial publication in Britain, Geoff Dyer’s The Search appears in American print.
Travis Kurowski talks to Jen Michalski about writing in every form, from comic book poetry to the novel (and back again).
“There is an experience it implies, a weary worldliness with which many writers aspire to imbue their characters.”
Nina Buckless talks to Nicholas Delbanco about talent, genius, and the work of “lastingness.”
Sharon Harrigan on Kyle Minor’s second collection, Praying Drunk, “a tipsy, dizzy spiritual pleading.”
“The stories I love most are the ones that feel novelistic in scope, where you can feel the writer pouring absolutely everything [they have] into the story, until there’s nothing left in them and they have to try to imagine an entirely new world.”
The best stories channel all the variety of their subject matter to the same place. They use it to worm into those mysterious depths that underlie human experience, those facets of existence we can each recognize despite the different lives we lead—connection, compassion, loyalty, betrayal, loss, failure.
Tallies, counts, and totals–FWR’s 2013 report on gender distribution in publishing.
