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The Sunday supplement #192
We’re reading short stories this summer at the Tournament of Books, and I’m really enjoying this week’s selection: My Dear You by Rachel Khong.
Sci-fi scenarios, online-dating disasters, plus a woman in China struggling to train a sex doll (and not fall in love with it). Lively, thoughtful, fun! Also, I’ve heard people who are reading ahead are loving, loving, loving Python’s Kiss by Louise Erdrich.
Reading shorts has also got me returning to two collections that mean the world to me: Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme and Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis. Perfect books in their ways.
