Objects of Desire

New Yorker editor and NYU MFA Clare Sestanovich's OBJECTS OF DESIRE, a collection of stories—among them "Old Hope," published earlier this month in The New Yorker—charting the spaces between wanting and having, hope and resignation, youth and adulthood, through a series of subtly unfolding crises, along with an untitled novel, to Annie Bishai in her first acquisition at Knopf.