New Books from NER Authors: Rachel Cantor
“Rife with deadpan humor and memorable characters” Rachel Cantor’s new novel, A Highly Unlikely Scenario, has been published by Melville House. From the New York Times: “By layering the ridiculous...
View ArticleMid-Week Break: Ted Conover Reads at Bread Loaf
Ted Conover, who has told stories for The Moth, brought his storytelling skills to Bread Loaf 2013, reading from his article, “The Way of All Flesh” (Harper’s, May 2013). To research “The Way of All...
View ArticleNER Classics | The Long March of “Orientalism”
“The Long March of ‘Orientalism': Western Travelers in Modern China,” Nicholas R. Clifford’s report from abroad, appeared in NER 22.2: Graves, graves, graves, countless ancestral graves in countless...
View ArticleNER CLASSICS | Sadness | Aliki Barnstone
Aliki Barnstone’s poem, “Sadness,” appeared in NER 21.2: Rilke says sadness is the moment the future enters us By surprise and pushes us into the unknown The handsome bartender says,”Your drinks are...
View ArticleNER CLASSICS | Updike’s Way | William H. Pritchard
“Wallace took a similar line in more abusive terms, declaring that readers under age forty—particularly female ones—had no time for what he termed the G.M.N.s (Great Male Novelists) and disliked Updike...
View ArticleNER CLASSICS | Not Renata | Dwight Allen
. . . he’d come into my head, unbidden, unconjured, the way long-ago boyfriends will do . . . Now and then, he’d come into my head, unbidden, unconjured, the way long-ago boyfriends will do, if you...
View ArticleNER CLASSICS | A French Love Affair | Gwen Strauss
Gwen Strauss’s essay, “A French Love Affair,” appeared in NER 21.2. We live on a converted barge, a houseboat, on a canal, on the eastern edge of Burgundy almost in the Jura mountains . . . We live on...
View ArticleCarrying the Torch | Brock Clarke
Brock Clarke’s story “Carrying the Torch” appeared in NER 21.1: I decided last night that someday soon I am going to rip my husband’s penis off with my bare hands. I plan to do it while he’s...
View ArticleCharles Baxter Reads at Bread Loaf
Charles Baxter is the author of, most recently, Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (Pantheon, 2011), and the forthcoming There’s Something I Want You to Do: a Decalogue, from which this audio is...
View ArticleMidweek Break | Randall Kenan Reads at Bread Loaf
Randall Kenan is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill. The author of A Visitation of Spirits (1989), Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the...
View ArticleMidweek Break | Cheryl Strayed Reads at Bread Loaf
Cheryl Strayed brings her voice to “Dear Sugar,” the advice column she has written for many years. Here, she reads selected columns in the Bread Loaf Little Theatre, dispensing advice to which we can...
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