“Her anger suddenly dissipated and was replaced again by longing.”
Fiction
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Literature by the Numbers
Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.
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Literature by the Numbers
Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.
Posted inFiction, Writing
Why We Still Can’t Quit F. Scott Fitzgerald
With a new “lost” short story published by The New Yorker, the bottle is just about dry.
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Law and Order, Coffee Shop Edition
Susan Read’s short fiction centers on a Kafka-esque interrogation in the back room of a coffee shop — you know, the one where they wear the green aprons — that’s a stinging indictment of the byzantine policies, procedures, and psychology of being a low wage employee.
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The Anton Chekhov-George Saunders Humanity Kit: An Introduction
A little over three years ago I asked George Saunders whether I could sit in on one of his MFA classes at Syracuse, and, flabbergastingly, he said okay.
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The Trump Story Project
Slate is running short stories by contemporary writers based in an imagined “Trump’s America.”
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Obama by the Books
In Vulture, book critic Christian Lorentzen suggests we dispense with terms like “postmodern” and “postwar” when discussing novels, and instead analyze them relative to the presidential administrations under which they were released. What will we mean when someday we refer to Obama Lit? I think we’ll be discussing novels about authenticity, or about “problems of […]
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10 Outstanding Short Stories To Read in 2017
Stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Chabon, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more.
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Excerpt: ‘The Red Car’ by Marcy Dermansky
“The car had upset me. Judy had found a parking space right in front of the restaurant and I could see the red car from our table. Taunting me.”