AJ Dunn Reads

  Apartment By Teddy Wayne In Apartment , an unnamed narrator who is in an MFA writing program at Columbia University paid for by his father, struggles to connect with his classmates who tear apart his stories. Billy, a young man in his class, is the only person who champions the narrator's work, speaking up for him. The narrator, grateful for the positive feedback, befriends Billy, hanging out with him at the bar he tends. The two find an easy friendship, and it becomes obvious that the narrator begins to idolize Billy. When the narrator finds that Billy, who is from the Midwest and does not have a lot of money living in New York City, is sleeping in a backroom at the bar he asks Billy to move in to his apartment with him. He is illegally subletting his great-aunt's apartment, with an opportunity to eventually become the lease holder of it. The two men create an agreement for Billy to cook and clean periodically in order to earn his keep, at Billy's suggestion. After Billy...