Welcome to 'The New Yorker' Fiction Club

The New Yorker Fiction Club is an open forum for discussing the weekly short fiction published in The New Yorker and on the magazine's online site.

The Club is open to anybody who enjoys fiction and would like to join a discussion about the stories published weekly in The New Yorker. No subscription is necessary, as we will link weekly to the online copy of the story, provided free by the magazine's website.

Discussions are open. What worked for you about the story? What made it great? What prevented you from enjoying the story, what do you think would have been more effective? Did you like a particular detail, line, or passage? Did you find a character abhorrent or fascinating, did the storyline make you think of something that has happened to you? Let it all out.

The Club is a ten-week experiment. Every Monday an excerpt of that week's fiction piece and a link to the story will appear, and commenting is then open. We'll continue through the end of January 2007, and figure out what we want to do from there.

This is all about enjoying the fiction, so have at it.