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“In the story ‘1939’, a couple of creative writing students at Kenyon College in Ohio decide to spend Thanksgiving weekend driving down to New York City to see their fiances, and everything goes about as wrong as you might wish. The genius is in the telling, in Peter Taylor’s case. There’s this wonderful episode—maybe this encapsulates it—where their car breaks down and they have to get a train back to university. And you have the rhythm of the train, which sticks in the mind of the narrator like a tune, and the rhythm has been turned into words, and the words are: Not yet, not yet, not yet.” Read more...
Benjamin Markovits, Novelist
