Author’s Writing Endures in Latest Collection

Bygone New Zealand is well represented in Janet Frame’s Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories, the latest in a series of posthumous publications of Frame’s work that has included poetry, a novel and excerpts from interviews and letters. “So much of Frame’s writing simply endures, no matter the place or time,” Alison McCulloch, a former editor at The New York Times Book Review, and author and journalist living in New Zealand, writes. “The 28 stories collected here, just over half of which are previously unpublished, span four decades of the author’s working life (she died in 2004, at the age of 79), starting in 1946 with ‘University Entrance,’ the first story published when she was an adult.”