WHY I DON’T WRITEAnd Other StoriesBy Susan MinotSusan Minot’s 1989 collection, “Lust: And Other Stories,” is just under 150 pages long. In his illegal car, we drove to the reservoir, the radio blaring, talking fast, fast, fast. title: “Why I Don’t Write.” Both books are slender and spare, but “Why I Don’t Write” is as quiet as “Lust” is loud. The stories in “Why I Don’t Write” are concerned with love, death, estrangement, loss and memory, which means that they are concerned with time itself. She spots him from afar but doubts herself, then later comes to doubt her doubt.

Source: New York Times September 04, 2020 20:15 UTC