(urth) stories in Best of Gene Wolfe

[aaron]

I would rather have seen Eyebem and The Changeling than On the Train and
Parkroads, but that's just my taste.  Don't get me wrong, I can see the
appeal of both stories, but just don't feel they are among Wolfe's best.  It
could be as you say that Wolfe considers On the Train to be good because it
appeared in the New Yorker.  I also miss A Solar Labyrinth and Silhouette.
Oh well.  I suppose the stories were not only chosen because they are his
best, but because they show Wolfe's range and diversity.

-Aaron

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Matthew Keeley
<matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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