The short story I have chosen for the March edition of the English Reading Circle, Mary Gaitskill’s “Something Better Than This,” is not an easy story. Its colloquial, conversational language has surely kept you close to the dictionary – or to the computer screen. In any case, I hope your linguistic frustrations have not kept
The reading that I have selected for the month of February, «You Remember the Planes,» is rather different from the ones we have seen in past sessions – different in that it is not a «short story» in the traditional sense. And yet it certainly has something that resembles a narrative. Some of those traditional literary
