Email Author Brendan Bernhard

1998 Stories by Brendan Bernhard

• The New Cemeterians

  published November 19, 1998

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• Neckties, 9 to 5 and Cocktail Parties

  published November 19, 1998

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• The Mosquito Roast

  published November 12, 1998

  To be a novelist, the novelist Paul Theroux tells me, it helps to suffer from "confusion, dysfunction, something problematical." It helps to be "a... More >>

• Looking for a Fight (page 2)

  published September 24, 1998

  Not all that surprisingly, the fight itself is unremarkable. Part of the problem is that, like most of the women Lucia fights, Ested doesn't... More >>

• Looking for a Fight (page 1)

  published September 24, 1998

  Lucia Rijker sits on a chair at the Wild Card Boxing Club, leaning forward to watch two men spar. She's quiet and attentive, and though there are... More >>

• World Cup ’98

  published July 16, 1998

  MR. MACHIAVELLI HAS LEFT THE BUILDING Merci Dieu. The Italians are done in, and beyond the borders of the boot-shaped country... More >>

• Calamity of Excellence

  published July 2, 1998

  He may be one of our leading magazine journalists - on staff at The New Yorker since 1981, a frequent contributor to Harper's and The Atlantic... More >>

• Monsieur Naturel

  published May 7, 1998

  It’s a dirty job, and no one has to do it. It’s one o’clock on a rainy afternoon, and I’m standing on a bridge... More >>

• Monsieur Naturel (page 2)

  published May 7, 1998

  Up in the room I was renting from Gail Wagman, I'd been looking at the latest volume of Crumb's sketchbooks, and there was one drawing I kept... More >>

• Among the Golems

  published April 2, 1998

  Fez is the most daunting city in Morocco, its French-induced schizophrenia marked to an extreme degree. The old and new cities are two separate... More >>

• Branded by Plath

  published March 19, 1998

  Ted Hughes is the Prince Charles of modern poetry, the man who spurned the woman women love. (He is also poet laureate to the queen.) Birthday... More >>