But back to 2012: I was reading the new issue, a story called “World’s End,” and it had done all of these things that I love so. The historical setting, the enormity of the task before the young architect, the incongruity of love and obsession, the tender and wondering treatment of the setting that struck me in my heart of hearts somewhere between Barrett and Dillard—it was a short story that felt like it was made for me, rather than one I admired through the glass. … More Welcome Discoveries