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Tag Archives | fiction
![The Glass Room. Simon Mawer](https://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/051420110053.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“The Glass Room”
“The Glass Room” traces the history of a home and how it survives the ruin and chaos of dissolved families, wartime possession, and new inhabitants.
![How It Ended: New and Collected Stories](https://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1814.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“How It Ended”
“How It Ended” brings together three decades of short stories, representing the breadth of Jay McInerney’s career.
![Sag Harbor: A Novel](https://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/0514201100517.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“Sag Harbor”
Colson Whitehead’s semi-autobiographical novel features a boy named Benji and his family’s summer in the Hamptons.
![Drift: Stories](https://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/0514201100515.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“Drift”
“Drift” forces us headfirst into the minds of various people whose lives are as stable as the waves crashing into the California coast.
![Eight White Nights: A Novel](https://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/051420110058.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“Eight White Nights”
Guy and girl meet. Guy and girl fall in love. It’s a familiar story, made unique by the Proustian prose of Andre Aciman’s novel “Eight White Nights.”
![The Believers: A Novel](https://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5626.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“The Believers”
In “The Believers,” a controversial attorney defends an alleged Muslim terrorist in court before falling into a coma, bringing out the best and worst in his manic-depressive family.
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“Tinkers”
Only 192 pages, “Tinkers” overflows with electric language that captures the state of mind of George Washington Crosby, a dying man who is haunted by memories of his father.
![The Imperfectionists: A Novel](https://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5621.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“The Imperfectionists”
Tom Rachman’s debut novel, about a bunch of foreign correspondents in Rome, makes a splash in the literary scene.
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New Yorker names 20 writers under 40
Inspiring both awe and envy, The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list has finally been released, after months of media speculation and scrutiny.