Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "A Love Match" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Edith Pearlman
“A Love Match” by Sylvia Townsend Warner is the story of brother-sister incest. No, I haven’t spoiled it—the fact of the incest and the...
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Fiction, Essays & More
The Imperfect
Tracy O'Neill
I meant to buy a gift on discount, but the coupon expired before I wasn’t hungover anymore. My girl Jolene read somewhere that a man’s relationship...
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Fiction, Essays & More
She’s Dying, He Said
Marge Piercy
I was what was then called a tomboy until halfway through my seventh year. I had always played with neighboring boys. I had little interest in...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreSyntax/Synapse Essays
Abounding and Superabounding
Elizabeth McKenzie
It had been a small reading, the kind one expects of course, and I knew everyone who attended, except for one man who was neither an old friend...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "Sex Education" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Don Chaon
I have long been interested in writers who have fallen into neglect. Dorothy Canfield Fisher is, unfortunately, among those whose work is seldom...
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Book RecsJunior Edition
Junior Edition #39
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Ellen Potter, Dave Eggers, Makiia Lucier, and Elaine Castillo!
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Fiction, Essays & More
In Response to Jonathan Franzen's New Yorker piece on Edith Wharton
Roxana Robinson
“Jonathan Franzen (in his essay in The New Yorker, “A Critic at Large”) addresses “the problem of sympathy” for Edith Wharton
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Fiction, Essays & More
Eyes
Vito Racanelli
Dougie sells loose joints. $10 a piece. No bags. This way he can hide most of his stash behind a brick in Furman’s Alley
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Story of the Book
What Else Would a Young Film Star Wear?
Maggie O'Farrell
In this essay, Maggie O’Farrell, author of This Must Be the Place, writes about how an unforgettable object found its way into her fiction.
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Fiction, Essays & More
Red Rooster
Victoria Redel
Any idiot could have told him it wouldn’t work. Pretty much every idiot did. Starting with his own idiot ex-wife, Carine
