Tag: short stories
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Masculinity in Joseph O’Neill’s Short Story Collection Good Trouble
This is masculinity in the 21st century, at a crossroads.
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Joseph O’Neill’s “The Referees”: a Tale of Alienation
Central to Joseph O’Neill’s short story “The Referees” is an embarrassing predicament: Rob Karlsson needs to apply for co-op housing in NYC but cannot, in all his circle of acquaintances, find two people to write him a personal reference. The short story treats the theme of alienation and dislocation, motifs of O’Neill’s short story collection,…