The Half You Don't Know
This collection of stories selected from ONE WAY OR ANOTHER and FAR-FLUNG also includes two previously uncollected stories: Departing, first published in The Yale Review and the basis for the novel THE WEEKEND, and Aria, also published in The Yale Review.
THE HALF YOU DON'T KNOW was published by Plume in 1998, and is now out of print.
A complete list of stories published in magazines and journals, 1983 to the present:
Memorial Day, The New Yorker, May 30, 1983
Grounded, The New Yorker, November 21, 1983
Archeology, Grand Street, Spring 1984
Homework, The New Yorker, May 7, 1984
Melissa & Henry – September 10, 1983, The New Yorker, June 18, 1984
Fast Forward, The New Yorker, February 4, 1985
Practically Engaged (retitled Heathen and Nuptials), Mademoiselle, March 1985
Fear of Math, The New Yorker, March 11, 1985
Excerpts from Swan Lake, The Kenyon Review, Spring 1985
The Next Best Thing to Happy (retitled The Last Possible Moment), Mademoiselle, June 1985
Jump or Dive, The New Yorker, June 17, 1985
Odd Jobs, The New Yorker, January 20, 1986
Point of View (retitled Not the Point), The Mississippi Review, Spring/Summer 1986
The Secret Dog, The Kenyon Review, Fall 1987
Freddie’s Haircut, The Kenyon Review, Winter 1987
The Café Hysteria, The Quarterly (Q), Winter 1987
Why I Live Where I Live (retitled Just Relax), Rolling Stone, July 16-30, 1987
Slowly, The New Yorker, January 18, 1988
The Middle of Everything, The Paris Review, Summer 1989
The Near Future, Columbia, 1990
The Winter Baazar, The New Yorker, February 5, 1990
The Half You Don’t Know, Bostonia, March/April 1991
The Meeting and Greeting Area, The Antioch Review, Summer 1991
Departing, The Yale Review, January 1994
Aria, The Yale Review, April 1995
Accidents, The Yale Review, July 1999
Beginning with the Letter, New England Review, Winter 2002
My Mother's Third Honeymoon, nerve.com, Fall 2004
My Father's First Eye Job, nerve.com, Summer 2005
The Abridged Versions, The Yale Review, July 2006
The End of My Life in New York, Subtropics, Winter/Spring 2009
Hearsay, The Yale Review, April 2010
After the Flood, Subtropics, Winter/Spring 2013; Esquire (Russia), March 2015
A Decent Family, Amica (Italy), April 2014; The Yale Review, January 2015
There Is a House Somewhere, Amica (Italy), June 2017