Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 264

Samantha Neugebauer

June 20, 2019

story: “Balloon Party” author: Tom Barbash year: 2014 where: Aspen note: from Stay Up With Me a line: “He liked the style of his parents’ friends, their breadth of experience and flowery elegance; their love of old jazz standards and good stiff drinks. Not infrequently Timkin wished that he’d lived in their day because he didn’t…

2019 short stories

Aspen, Balloon Party, Colorado, Stay Up With Me, Tom Barbash
300 short stories: story 263

Samantha Neugebauer

June 20, 2019

story: “Bullet in the Brain” author: Tobias Wolff year: 1995 where: Aspen note: Reread! Breathtaking. a line: “He did not remember Professor Josephs telling his class how Athenian prisoners in Sicily had been released if they could recite Aeschylus, and then reciting Aeschylus himself, right there, in the Greek.” theme(s): Society, Memory, Death, Joy

2019 short stories

american fiction, Bullet in the Brain, short fiction, Short Stories, The New Yorker, Tobias Wolff

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 264

300 short stories: story 263