The New Yorker Project 4—The Big Middle

A WRITER'S WIT
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy.
Louise Imogen Guiney
Born January 7, 1861

The Big Middle

Scroll down if you missed the first two posts in this series: the Introduction and Crème de la Crème. In this post, The Big Middle, I list what I feel are well written but not extraordinary stories in 2014's The New Yorker, listed in chronological order. By clicking on the title, you will be taken to the original post profiling the story.

21. January 6, 2013, Antonya Nelson, “First Husband”
22. February 10, 2014, Zadie Smith, “Moonlit Landscape with Bridge”
23. March 10, 2014, Yiyun Li, “A Sheltered Woman”
24. March 17, 2014, T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Relive Box”

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25. March 31, 2014, Louise Erdrich, “The Big Cat”
26. April 14, 2014, Roddy Doyle, “Box Sets”
27. May 12, 2014, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, “The Fugitive”
28. June 9 & 16, 2014, Haruki Murakami, “Yesterday”

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29. July 21, 2014, Greg Jackson, “Wagner in the Desert”
30. July 28, 2014, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, “Last Meal at Whole Foods”
31. August 4, 2014, Paul Theroux, “Action”
32. August 25, 2014, Tessa Hadley, “One Saturday Morning”

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33. September 8, 2014, Thomas McGuane, “Motherlode”
34. September 29, 2014, Paul La Farge, “Rosendale”
35. October 6, 2014, Kevin Canty, “Story, with Bird”
36. November 24, 2014, Brad Watson, “Eykelboom”
37. December 1, 2014, Etgar Keret, “One Gram Short”
38. December 15, 2014, Elizabeth McKenzie, “Savage Breast”
39. December 22 & 29, 2014, Nuruddin Farah, “The Start of the Affair”

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