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Short Story Review: Fake Friends in “The Dinner Party”

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Katie Cummings, Short Story Reviews, Story Reviewers

The New Yorker: The Dinner Party
by Joshua Ferris
“I can predict everything that will happen from the moment they arrive to the little kiss on the cheek goodbye and I just can’t goddam do it.”
We’ve all been here before. The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris summarizes these awkward and well, boring moments we all endure for [...]

Short Story Review: Powerlessness in “Uncertainty”

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Ed, Short Story Reviews, Story Reviewers

Tin House: Uncertainty
by Joshua Ferris
Uncertainty, a short story by Joshua Ferris, explores themes of powerlessness and the prospect of bleak futures over which we may have no control.
He does this through the eyes of two main characters, a young, married couple, living in New York. Nate is a climatologist, who teaches and researches global [...]