Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 275

Samantha Neugebauer

July 29, 2019

story: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” author: Joyce Carol Oates year: 1966 where: Casa note: Damon and I also watched Smooth Talk, the 1985 movie based on the short story. Much debate ensued. a line: “But all the boys fell back and dissolved into a single face that was not even a face but…

2019 short stories

american literature, fiction, Joyce Carol Oats, Mothers and Daughters, short fiction, Short Stories, Smooth Talk, Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?
300 short stories: story 274

Samantha Neugebauer

July 28, 2019

story: “The Witch” author: Shirley Jackson year: 1949 where: kitchen table note: I’m looking for a story I read by Jackson a long time ago. I think the woman’s name is Mrs. X. a line: “He was an elderly man, with a pleasant face under white hair; his blue suit was only faintly touched by the disarray…

2019 short stories

fiction, Shirley Jackson, strangers, The Witch, Train travel, UAE, USA, witches

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 275

300 short stories: story 274