(urth) stories in Best of Gene Wolfe

Matthew Keeley matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 17:51:56 PDT 2008


On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Matthew Groves
<matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some strange choices here.  Parkroads?  On the Train?  It's not that these
> are not good; they just don't seem representative.  I think novel excerpts
> would have been good, such as the alzabo episode.

Yes, but "On the Train" is (sadly) the only Wolfe story accepted by
The New Yorker, so he has a soft spot for it. Or he did when he wrote
the introduction to Storeys from the Old Hotel.

-Matt



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