Samantha Neugebauer

400 short stories: story 317

Samantha Neugebauer

October 5, 2019

story: “The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street” author: Mavis Gallant year: 1963 where: Burj al Salam, Dubai note: reread a line: “Snow, which he tasted, melted on her hands. His gesture of licking snow from her hands was formal as a handshake.” theme(s): Self-delusion, expatriate life, storytelling, loyalty

2019 short stories

dubai, Mavis Gallant, short fiction, Short Stories, The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street, The New Yorker, UAE
400 short stories: story 316

Samantha Neugebauer

October 4, 2019

story: “My Wife is a White Russian” author: Rose Tremain year: 1983 where: nail salon note: I’ve been deep in Ferrante land and not reading as many short stories. a line: “To the nurse I tried to say when I felt a movement begin: ‘Teach me how to wipe my arse. I cannot let my wife…

2019 short stories

My Wife is a White Russian, Rose Tremain

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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Samantha Neugebauer

400 short stories: story 317

400 short stories: story 316