I read “The New Yorker” magazine with some regularity.
Each issue has a short story included that I usually start, but don’t finish.
They rarely grab hold of me. But I went back and took a look at E. Annie
Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” which first appeared in October 1997. It is an
absolutely brilliant example of economy of story and character development. She
squeezes more information into a single line of dialogue than other writers can
get onto a page and fifty times the words. She won an O. Henry award for the
story.
