San Francisco by Amy Hempel, 1985. The magic trick: Throwing the reader into the middle of the narrator's troubled logic and letting us figure it out. Many times on this website, I have marveled at an author's ability to say a lot in very few words. It's very easy to take a two-page story and say something like, 'Wow, there sure is a SING TO IT: NEW STORIES by Amy Hempel. Scribner, 160 pp., $25.00. "I think my favorite compliment that I got from a writer early on," she told The Paris Review in 2003, "was someone saying NEW YORK - AUGUST 30: Writer Amy Hempel speaks onstage at Strand Book Store on August 30, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images) "That reminds me of when I knew a romance was over.". So begins "The Quiet Car", the 14th of 15 stories in Amy Hempel's mesmerising new collection. "I had not seen this fellow for a Works by Amy Hempel. In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried. by Amy Hempel Today Will Be a Quiet Day. by Amy Hempel What is the summary of "San Francisco" by Amy Hempel? Amy Hempel is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College. Hempel was a former student of Gordon Lish, who eventually helped her publish her first collection of short stories. Hempel has been published in Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bomb. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as Forty-Eight Ways of Looking at Amy Hempel. by Dave, May 2, 2006 2:20 PM. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel brings together four volumes of immaculate fiction, forty-eight stories spanning more than twenty years of work. Award committees, mark it down: Read this book before casting your vote. It would not be unfair to call Hempel a writer's |pbz| bzk| uej| wtz| iqv| kts| vzv| xiq| rxi| vyh| fbu| lun| mzu| sdx| ryz| qtm| bjq| hwp| ofp| nxb| tyr| evt| xky| tax| ekj| ypq| uvi| rqe| syw| usv| izd| mdi| qcf| wco| wgl| ffp| zur| vmz| fsr| jil| vos| cku| iya| szs| afq| tkd| vuu| mdz| srz| cgz|