stories in Best of Gene Wolfe

Matthew Keeley · 13 Oct 2008, 00:51 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com (Matthew Keeley)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:51:56 -0400
Subject: (urth) stories in Best of Gene Wolfe
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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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