Holiday Fiction

Sometimes it's nice to read fiction during the Holidays. The New Yorker's Fiction issues not only come out in summer but now also in winter. For your reading pleasure, it gives me immense pleasure to serve you this award winning short story from Lisa Chipongian. "Intramuros" won over about 1,000 entries for the prestigious Boston Review's 12th Annual Contest. Chipongian is a writer and editor based in Wisconsin, as well as a psychologist.
"Our judge, Edwidge Danticat, was moved to elect our winner because of her “vivid and powerful prose” and because there was no other entry that offered so “wonderful a meditation on childhood.” We on the editorial staff join Ms. Danticat in congratulating Lisa Chipongian," said Junot Díaz, himself an award-winning writer.
Also, New Yorker discovered "The Word" from Nabokov.