Kate Conley, Edward Tuck Professor of French and Comparative Literature
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This winter I'd like to recommend the short stories of Claire Keegan, collected in the volumes Antarctica (1999) and Walk the Blue Fields (2007), and the stand-alone long story "Foster" (2010), which first appeared in a shorter form in the New Yorker last summer. Keegan's stories are beautifully written, evocative, insightful, powerful, and sometimes wonderfully funny. She was a real discovery for me.