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  • BOB THURBER: Myth of a Life
  • Summer House

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theparisreview.org /1 month ago

Barthelme, the Houstonian

“Barthelme died in 1989, at the age of fifty-eight. I was at college and heard the news from a friend who worked at a Kinko’s to which one of the Barthelme brothers had brought Don...

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fiftywordstories.com /1 month ago

BOB THURBER: Myth of a Life

Once upon a time, in a bed that was not my own, I wandered through a dream that was not mine, and woke abruptly from a sleep that was not mine, to find strangers staring directly i...

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nybooks.com /1 month ago

Summer House

There was a full shelf of Simenon and a coral sculpture that looked a bit like barbed wire in the family room. I moved the flowered cushions off the bed and put the percolator with...

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theparisreview.org /1 month ago

The Twenty-Year Novel: Harriet Clark on The Hill

If you’re deprived of a home, deprived of access to your family, you learn that, actually, being bound to others is the significant thing.

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fiftywordstories.com /3 weeks ago

DM BARLOW: The End of the Affair

There was a letter waiting at the front desk. She took it up to the room and opened the balcony doors. Clear blue skies and the smell of coconut oil. Beneath her, couples in swimsu...

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nybooks.com /1 month ago

Visiting Privileges

Harriet Clark’s debut novel is a fable-like story of growing up in the fallout of a family’s radical dreams.

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newyorker.com /4 days ago

“Gatekeeping,” by Bryan Washington

My brother answered the phone. He told me that there’d been an accident but not to panic.

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openculture.com /1 month ago

Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago

“What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?” asked Kurt Vonnegut in his autobiography Palm Sunday. His answer? His master’s thesis in anthropology for the University o...

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fiftywordstories.com /1 month ago

BOB THURBER: Morning In Rapunzel’s Tower

While she slept, the prince measured her hair, which in sunlight was the color of butterscotch. He admired her view of the forest and fields. He observed peasants passing below. He...

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fiftywordstories.com /1 week ago

PAUL D’ARCY: Forwarding Address

He changed the locks in October, the month he got married. But the landlord used the same hardware. She figured it out in under a minute. She doesn’t take anything. She doesn’t lea...

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theparisreview.org /1 month ago

The Vanishing Library: Timothy Ely’s Odd Little Book from Outer Space

“The few words it contains are indecipherable, of no language. (The letters look Hebrew—if you don’t know Hebrew and have never seen Hebrew letters before.)”

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“Stories,” by Annie Ernaux

I believed that, when it came to words, everything was allowed.

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newyorker.com /3 weeks ago

“The Readers,” by Ben Lerner

It would be one thing if I wrote fiction about Cromwell or aliens, but, given that my protagonists resemble me, how could I know you weren’t mixing us up?

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nybooks.com /3 weeks ago

Variations on Broken Eggs

In April 1951 Randall Jarrell sent a short poem titled “A War” to his friend Robert Lowell: There set out, slowly, for a Different World,At four, on winter mornings, different legs...

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texasmonthly.com /1 month ago

The Smallest of Things 

A lesson from a Pulitzer Prize–winning story. 

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newyorker.com /3 weeks ago

The Pied Piper

The man with the fife was good at getting rid of Hamelin’s rats. What, the townspeople wondered, could he do with the children?

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