Author: Andrea Bishop

  • The Shortlist for April 25, 2025

    The Shortlist for April 25, 2025

    Nonfiction by Elizabeth Jannuzzi, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo and Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Fiction by Andrea Bishop, Samanta Schweblin, Monte Lin, Bob Johnson, Fionnuala Meehan, and Éva Székely

  • Nothing Mechanically Wrong by Andrea Bishop

    This isn’t the first story by Andrea Bishop I’ve featured here, and it surely won’t be the last. I didn’t get the double entendre of the title until just now, but the story has haunted me for days. It’s a stressful story, told from the perspective of a traumatized and anxious young boy on the…

  • Quantifying the Dent of Bob

    The narrator of this story is a project manager in the most Project Manager sense. She’s trying to use work do move on from her husband’s death, but she’s the last to realize how poorly it’s working. I love the way this story slowly unravels as more of the narrator’s life is revealed.