SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE and CONCLAVE

If you have not read Claire Keegan’s work, you really, really should: she is a wonderful writer, secreting gigantic ideas in her small, perfectly formed stories.  I wrote about So Late in the Day some months ago, a tale of a man’s frugality and what it ultimately costs him (plot spoiler: it costs him things that are priceless, like love and companionshi…