We feature another great short story by Alice Munro titled “Axis,” first published in The New Yorker in 2011. As in many of Alice Munro’s short stories, the characters aren’t like anyone I know, but they never seem contrived or invented. I would say that she loves creating characters and then observing them as they go their own way.
--------
40:44
--------
40:44
Return to M&M World
Kate Walbert’s 2012 New Yorker short story is set on a buzzing early spring day in Times Square, evoking the unique sense of renewal and energy palpable in New York when the city finally begins to thaw out from a long winter. While dutifully fulfilling her youngest daughter’s wish of visiting the hectic M&M World, Ginny’s day turns tense as she struggles to keep track of her kids and revisits memories of her estranged husband.
--------
37:50
--------
37:50
Geronimo Rides Again
The life and times of the Apache warrior and his involvement in the longest armed conflict in U.S. History.
--------
39:29
--------
39:29
The Babes Return
Flora and Terry were both born out of wedlock and have been sent to live far from their families to hide the shame. Flora reveals to Terry that his auntie is really his mother and crushes his dream of someday living with her and the English gentlemen that takes them out on a jaunt to the beach.
--------
30:59
--------
30:59
Everything Still Rises
A fateful bus ride provides the backdrop for an exploration of early '60s race relations and the differing beliefs between a mother and her son in Flannery O'Connor's award-winning 1961 short story.
Canada - english