Aryn Kyle is the author of the bestselling novel The God of Animals and a graduate of the University of Montana writing program. Her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New American Voices 2005, Best American Short Stories 2007, and The Atlantic Monthly, for which her story "Foaling Season" won a National Magazine Award. She is also the recipient of the American Library Association's Alex Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers'Award, and others. She lives in New York.
When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles -- a depressed, bed-ridden...
...as Elif Batuman, Eula Biss, Judy Budnitz, Lan Samantha Chang, Rebecca Curtis, Rivka Galchen, Kathleen Graber, Frances Hwang, Aryn Kyle, ZZ Packer, Tracy K. Smith, Mary Szybist, and Julia Whitty...
...regeneration as elusive for the city as for the man." Boys and Girls Like You and Me Aryn Kyle $14 Like Todd Solondz's movies, Kyle's 11 stories can be read at as comedies or tragedies. Adult characters are jaded, while children teeter with the knowledge...
...Have you ever seen the Charles Grodin-Robert De Niro movie “Midnight Run,” in which De Niro is a rough-and-tumble ex-cop bounty hunter hired to catch Grodin, a fastidious accountant with a heart of gold who stole from the mob, gave the money to the...
...review in the February 23rd New York Times Sunday book review. Amazon features a review of the novel by Aryn Kyle, the Alex Award-winning author of The God of Animals (Scribner, 2007). ESPACH, Alison. The Adults. 320p. Scribner. 2011. Tr $25. ISBN...
...writers. Past recipients of the Writers’ Awards, such as Eula Biss, Judy Budnitz, Lan Samantha Chang, Kathleen Graber, Aryn Kyle, Dana Levin, ZZ Packer, Julia Slavin, Tracy K. Smith, Mary Szybist, and Julia Whitty have since received wider critical...
...a surreal hostage experience on a cruise ship. "This Is Not Your City" is akin to work by Aryn Kyle and Lydia Peelle, though Horrocks takes more narrative risks. A bravura debut. Grade: A Stolen Pleasures Counterpoint, 224 pp., $15.95 Gina Berriault This...
...a surreal hostage experience on a cruise ship. "This Is Not Your City" is akin to work by Aryn Kyle and Lydia Peelle, though Horrocks takes more narrative risks. A bravura debut. Grade: A Stolen Pleasures Counterpoint, 224 pp., $15.95 Gina Berriault This...
...this sci-fi take on Sleeping Beauty. Review to come.Boys and Girls Like You and Me by Aryn Kyle: I loved Kyle's short story collection so much that I picked up her novel this past week. Review to come.Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma: Ugh. Ugh. ...
...a try.Spoiled by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan: The cove is eye-catching.The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle: I loved her short story collection, so I had to pick up her novel, too.My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler: I've been meaning to read Handler for...
...In My Mailbox (IMM) is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren. This meme allows bloggers to share the books they’ve received over the course of the week. I’m trying to participate in part because I think it’s fun, and in part because...
...a random shout out to the ones I can find within grabbing distance: The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle (Started reading it in Paris. Brought it back over to the other side of the Atlantic where it's been gathering dust ever since.) The Satanic Verses by...