Short Story Saturday: T.C. Boyle's "The Night of the Satellite"

T.C. Boyle T.C. Boyle’s “The Night of the Satellite” originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine in April 2013.  In addition it is part of the short story compilation titled The Best American Short Stories of 2014 edited by Jennifer Egan – which is where I came across it. The story is about a couple of graduate students, Paul and Mallory, who have somehow drifted through life to the