Single, Carefree, Mellow

Having been declared a ‘prodigy’ following her first publication in the New Yorker (1992), Heiny has finally delivered her long-awaited debut collection ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow.’ This collection is populated by middle class New York women, most of whom are striving for success in their lovers’ beds rather than in their work. The majority have embarked Read More

My Name is Lucy Barton (Longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize)

In the heady carelessness of youth, I once announced brashly that “family” was a label for a certain false consciousness: kinship had to be earned from love and personal intimacy, neither made up from routine proximity nor the product of mere biology. In middle age, I see that there are all kinds of families that Read More