Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 297

Samantha Neugebauer

August 12, 2019

story: “Homage for Isaac Babel” author: Doris Lessing year: 1958 where: Al Reem note: This story has such a curious premise and there is virtually no backstory for the characters or their relationships to one another, which makes me think of Hemingway, of course. a line: “Philip rescued her by saying with disdain: ‘Some people don’t know…

2019 short stories

Doris Lessing, Homage for Isaac Babel, short fiction, short story
300 short stories: story 296

Samantha Neugebauer

August 12, 2019

story: “Terminal” author: Nadine Gordimer year: 1984 where: Al Reem note: My favorite South African writer. a line: “The rubber thing that went past on the assembly belt before the sixteen-year-old future prostitute was remote from the two of them, laughing in bed on a Sunday morning, as the life of any factory worker.” theme(s): Death, marriage,…

2019 short stories

Nadine Gordimer, South African Literature, Terminal

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

300 short stories: story 297

300 short stories: story 296