I hope you enjoyed the essays I posted this week focused on Dorothy Parker’s classic story, You Were Perfectly Fine. Based on the blog traffic, you did, in fact, enjoy these posts. That makes me happy. Not because blog stats matter in the long run, but because I feel like the bigger piece of information here is that these essays were helpful and interesting. That’s all a blogger can hope for, really. In case you missed any of this week’s discussion (or if you are looking for

So, here’s what I see when I look at my all-time blog stats: <img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382" class="size-full wp-image-382 lazyload" title="Screen Shot 2011-08-16 at 5.10.48 PM" src="https://ericswyatt.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/screen-shot-2011-08-16-at-5-10-48-pm.png" alt="Blog data screen shot" width="500" height="241" /> This is a screen shot of the WordPress stats for my blog. Dorothy Parker and James Thurber are cleaning up... I’m closing in on 10,000 pa

[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy Parker category tag.)[/su_note] Too Bad is the second story in Dorothy Parker’s Complete Stories. Like other Parker stories, this one examines the way things look and compares them to the way things really are. In this case, the story examines the breakup of Grace and Ernest Weldon, a couple married for seven years when suddenly they announc

[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy Parker category tag.)[/su_note] When I first started this blog, one of the things I wanted to do more often was quick re-caps of short fiction. One of the reasons I do these short story reviews is because this is how I learn from some of the classic short stories, and even from current short fiction featured in various online and print publi