I'm reading Tobias Wolff's 2008 collectionOur Story Begins. It opens with "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs." What a great story. The metaphor about higher education's glass ceiling's ability to cut/to hurt/to destroy is brilliantly delivered. It should be required reading for those in academe. Considering how I was exposed to it, perhaps it already is. And, considering the recent gains of women in academia, perhaps the use of the word Garden to describe academia is no longer a darkly ironic symbol. Or at least, not as dark.
"Bullet in the Brain" is also in here. Perhaps the most innovative way to develop a character, ever.
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