SUNY New Paltz Associate Professor of English Heinz Insu Fenkl’s short story “Five Arrows” was published in the Aug. 3, 2015 issue of The New Yorker, alongside an interview with the author.
“Five Arrows” is the story of a young boy’s visit to his uncle’s rural South Korea home. It is a setting the author is familiar with; Fenkl spent time during his own childhood in the Korean countryside, and told his New Yorker interviewer, “I think of the piece as autobiographical fiction.”
Both the short story “Five Arrows” and the interview with Fenkl are available on the website of The New Yorker. The author also recorded a reading of the story, which can be accessed on Soundcloud.
Heinz Insu Fenkl’s first novel, “Memories of My Ghost Brother,” was published by Dutton Adult, an imprint of Penguin books, in 1996. “Five Arrows” is taken from a work in progress, “Skull Water,” scheduled to be published by Graywolf Press in 2017.
