Samantha Neugebauer

100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-nine

Samantha Neugebauer

January 15, 2017

story: The Third and Final Continent author: Jhumpa Lahiri year: 2000 where: Art House Café note: Lahiri, a reread, and my fellow Italian language lover a line: “I was told that she could cook, knit, embroider, sketch landscapes, and recite poems by Tagore, but these talents could not make up for the fact that she did not…

100 days 100 short stories read day one

Jhumpa Lahiri, literary quote, literary quotes, literature, Short Stories, The Third and Final Continent
100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-eight

Samantha Neugebauer

January 14, 2017

story: Sonny’s Blues author: James Baldwin year: 1958 where: Burjeel Hospital, the fanciest hospital cafeteria I’ve ever been in note: a reread, a favorite, a story for everyone a line: “Isabel finally confessed that it wasn’t like living with a person at all, it was like living with sound.”

100 days 100 short stories read day one

James Baldwin, literature, Short Stories, Sonny’s Blues

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

100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-nine

100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-eight