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The Australian-American writer’s short fiction is full of precisely observed studies of thwarted connection... 
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We can really only handle our fictional dystopias in short-form; the world in 2018 is enough of a long-form dystopia for most of us. And the logic of a dystopian world doesn't leave much room for any other type of story, since one factor all well-drawn dystopias share is a clear-sighted acknowledgment that the citizens
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Deborah Treisman on the most-read short stories published by The New Yorker in 2017, including fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zadie Smith, Curtis Sittenfeld, Kristen Roupenian, and Samantha Hunt.
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From James Baldwin to Joyce Carol Oates, literary giants graced Hugh Hefner’s pages alongside the centerfolds
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I believe all/the majority of authors sold stories to Playboy because the publication paid significantly - vastly - more than any other.
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Z. had emptied half the carton of juice, and now I was holding it as he poured the vodka into the plastic funnel at the top. We had laughed at the way he threw his head back and drank, sucking the juice down even as he grimaced at the taste, which was sickly sweet.
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Painfully, badly written but there's minor saving grace in the last two paragraphs of the story.
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Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in the Ukraine. To escape the pogroms, her family emigrated to Brazil when she was a baby. She spent her childhood in the northeast city of Recife. Her first novel, Near to the Wild Heart, was published when she was 23 years old. She immediately gained a reputation and over time became one of Brazil’s most acclaimed writers. She published novels, stories, and journalism until her death in 1977. This story was first published in Brazil in 1971, in the collection Felicidade Clandestina. This marks its first publication in English. Copyright ©2013 by New Directions Publishing and the Heirs of Clarice Lispector, from the forthcoming Collected Stories. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. All rights reserved.
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There was a line at the ski lift. The group of boys who had come on the bus had joined it, one next to the other, skis parallel, and every time it advanced—it was long and, instead of going straight, as in fact it could have, zigzagged randomly, sometimes upward, sometimes down—they stepped up or
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Fiction: “She was a motel maid, but it helped to think like a doctor or a nurse. It helped to think that she was helping other people.”
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The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.
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Jhumpa Lahiri has been selected as the winner of the 29th PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Named in honor of Bernard Malamud, the $5,000 prize “recognizes a body of work that…
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Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015), Finders Keepers (2015), Revival (2014), and Mr. Mercedes (2014), an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel, all published by Scribner. His novel 11/22/63 (Scribner, 2011) was named a top-ten book by the New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. King is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.
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Last year Music & Literature ran an issue partly devoted to Ann Quin, with work both by and about her. My favorite bit is a line from an interview in which Quin is asked about a vision she’s had. How…
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Though Her Body and Other Parties centers on women’s lives, at the margins lurks the ultimate source of the horrors that haunt them: men.
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We polled staff and contributors to pick our favorite short fiction of the year
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Google almost any celebrated short story writer — George Saunders, Kelly Link, Alice Munro, Isak Dinesen, Joy Williams — and you’re likely to see the same two words over and over again: “writer’s…
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Lovely intro by Jenny McPhee, novelist: In my pantheon of favorite writers, Clarice Lispector is right there at the top. She's a writer, like Muriel Spark or Thomas Bernhard, who always make me ask when reading their work: Is this allowed? Sometimes her prose has such power I am made to wonder if I have the strength and stability to keep reading. Championed by Elizabeth Bishop…
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Sketching lives very similar to her own, Berlin’s stories of hardscrabble lives resemble Raymond Carver’s – while also invoking some of Proust’s spirit
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Leone Ross is a novelist, short story writer, editor and lecturer in fiction writing. She was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All The Blood Is Red was published by Angela Royal Publishing in 1996 and translated into French. The novel was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 1997. Her second critically acclaimed novel, Orange Laughter was published in the UK by Anchor Press, in the USA by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Picador USA and in France by Actes Sud. Her short story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway, is available on June 5th and published by Peepal Tree Press.
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We're delighted to present a new short story by Lisa McInerney, taken from the latest issue of essential Irish literary bible Stinging Fly.
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Catherine Lacey is the author of Nobody Is Ever Missing (FSG, 2014), winner of a 2016 Whiting Award and a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Her second novel, The Answers, from which “Personal Day” is adapted, is forthcoming from FSG in June.
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