Samantha Neugebauer

400 short stories: story 313

Samantha Neugebauer

September 14, 2019

story: “A Dream of Men” author: Mary Gaitskill year: 1988 where: Home, kitchen table note: Apparently this story is discussed by Ben Marcus and Deborah Treisman on an episode of The New Yorker: Fiction podcast; I’ll have to give it a listen this week. a line: “Ever since then, Laura had felt good around Dr. Ramirez.…

2019 short stories

A Dream of Men, Abu Dhabi, Mary Gaitskill, Short Stories, The New Yorker
400 short stories: story 312

Samantha Neugebauer

September 9, 2019

story: “Sealed Off” author: Eileen Chang year: 1944 (English translation 2016) where: Blacksmith Coffee note: Chang’s studies were interrupted in Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked (the same week as Pearl Harbor). Chang returned to Shanghai. All Chang’s stories (to my knowledge) are set in either Hong Kong or Shanghai. a line: “But,” said Cuiyuan, “a girl from…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Eileen Chang, Sealed Off, UAE

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 313

400 short stories: story 312