Story Reviews: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro, and Jon by George Saunders

The Short Story Station sought the permission of Lynai to publish her reviews of last month’s short story selections. Lynai is “a lawyer, a teacher, a wife to…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

Jon is the first story that I have read that was written by George Saunders. It was included in My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead, an anthology of love stories…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

The setting will take us into a world ruled by consumerism, wherein an advertising facility houses teenagers, whose reality is based on their brain-implanted advertisement chips.…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

Jon is a story about the eponymous youngster who lives within the confines of a marketing research center as a laboratory rat. He, with other trendsetters,…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

Jon by George Saunders is one of the short stories included in his collection, In Persuasion Nation. This sci-fi story is set in an advertising research…

Short Stories of the Month: September 2014

Why short stories? Not even short story collections or anthologies but stand-alone, honest-to-goodness short stories. After all, the novel has often been treated as the measure…