A literary eventtwenty short stories by the late Maeve Brennan one of The new Yorkers most admired writers. Five are set in the authors native Dublin a city like Joyces of paralyzed souls and unexpressed love. the others are set in and around her adopted Manhattan which she once called the capsized cityhalfcapsized anyway with the inhabitants hanging on most of them still able to laugh as they cling to the island that is their lifes predicament. Some of the stories are quietly tender some f