Agree--I read a bunch of Mavis Gallant's work during the pandemic. "From the Fifteenth District" is a story I recommend to friends who express an interest in her writing.

Just finished Michael Chabon's "Wonder Boys" and I'm now reading "On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes" by Alexandra Horowitz. Thumbs up for both. Chabon sure has a way of pulling the reader along until arriving at a milepost of verbiage that is both ridiculous and appropriate.