Originally published in The New Yorker, Nov. 29, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 88.IN ONE SENSE: "They were total strangers except for this dead dog."This is, more or less, the raison d'etre of Hunt's story, in which a man, Roy, chooses to make his ordinary situation -- forty-two, living at home again, "'A pity,' his grandmother had decided" -- into an extraordinary one. He does this, in th…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:49PM on November 24, 2010