Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 295

Samantha Neugebauer

August 12, 2019

story: “The Boy” author: Joyce Carol Oates year: 1988 where: the Ikea kitchen table note: This story is one long sentence! No, wait, two sentences. a line: “I opened his pants and took hold of him but he was soft, breathing fast and shallow, was he afraid?…” theme(s): Teacher student relationship, sex, desperation

2019 short stories

american literature, Joyce Carol Oats, short short stories, The Boy
300 short stories: story 294

Samantha Neugebauer

August 12, 2019

story: “There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella” author: Fernando Sorrentino year: 1970 where: the Ikea kitchen table note: A must-read. a line: “All he does is hit me. He accompanies me in all my acts–even the most intimate ones. I remember, in the beginning, that the blows kept…

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Abu Dhabi, Argentine Literature, Fernando Sorrentino, Short Stories, There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella

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 295

300 short stories: story 294