June 2019

300 short stories: story 244

Samantha Neugebauer

June 6, 2019

story: “Eating Fish Alone” author: Lydia Davis year: 2014 where: Home, in bed note: In The New Yorker, Davis’ eyes have been described as “blue milk glass”…and this sentence could almost constitute the length of an average story by Davis. In truth, I’ve read several dozen of her stories this week, but they are so short,…

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300 short stories: story 243

Samantha Neugebauer

June 4, 2019

story: “It’s Bad Luck to Die” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 1993 where: Saadiyat Beach Club poolside with Big Gate note: I really liked the complexity of the mother character in this story. a line: “My life drove my mother crazy. All she wanted was for me to become mirculously blank. I broke her heart–that was my…

2019 short stories

Elizabeth McCracken, It’s Bad Luck to Die, Literary fiction, Short Stories

BIO: Samantha Neugebauer is the author of the forthcoming short story collection Villains (WWPH, January 2027) and hybrid craft-pedagogy book Teaching Writing Through Story Reimaginings: Adaptation as Critical Practice (Bloomsbury, 2028). She is a lecturer at N.Y.U. in Washington, D.C., and serves as a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. Originally from Philadelphia, Samantha holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In the recent past, Samantha taught at Johns Hopkins, N.Y.U. in Abu Dhabi, and amassed nearly a decade of experience working abroad in the UAE, Germany, Italy, England, China, Greece, and elsewhere, including a recent position as a research assistant at Georgetown University/Georgetown University in Qatar. Her current novel manuscript, which she completed at the Hawthornden Residency in Scotland during summer 2025, was chosen as the 2024 runner-up for the Marianne Russo Award. She is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and nowadays, splits her time between Washington, Taiwan, and other places…

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June 2019

300 short stories: story 244

300 short stories: story 243