Last Season's Hottest Short Story Fashions

I'm always about three months behind on The New Yorker and the only reason I don't fall behind further is because I skip entirely the perfect-bound double issues which don't fit the slim magazine-groove on the excercise machines at the gym. I tell you this because I've just gotten around to Tony Earley's "The Cryptozoologist" from the 9 January issue. Maybe I found the story especially interesting because one of the characters seemed very similar to someone I know; regardless, I liked the story. One cryptozoologist did not.

Rebecca Curtis' story, "Twenty Grand," from mid-December was pretty damn good, too.