I haven't had time to mention here that I posted a review of Elaine Dundy's comic novel The Dud Avocado over at Escape Into Life on Friday. Another New York Review Books Classic, and one a few of us bantered about over at the NYRB book group on GoodReads this month. This was a very fun summertime read, set as it is in Paris and on the French coast. I've seen a few criticisms of it suggesting that Dundy was no Henry James, but then I don't think she ever intended to be.
Short Story Wednesday "Down at the Dinghy" J.D. Salinger (from NINE STORIES)
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https://www.scribd.com/doc/258614035/Down-at-the-Dinghy
The story begins with two servants alluding to one's worry that the child
in the house will tel...
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