Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories:: story 225

Samantha Neugebauer

May 10, 2019

story: “The Bar of Our Recent Unhappiness” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 1994 where: Saadiyat note: This story made me think of a New Yorker article I read in winter 2018 about the ethics of keeping people alive who are brain dead via machines. a line: “’You know how it is. You get resigned. God helps you through.’…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Brain damage, Death, Elizabeth McCracken, The Bar of Our Recent Unhappiness, UAE
300 short stories:: story 224

Samantha Neugebauer

May 9, 2019

story: “The Contest” author: Grace Paley year: 1959 where: casa dolce casa note: Il était une fois, there was a man who was intimidated by a woman who knew what she wanted. Small men call women selfish if they feel like a woman’s life will never revolve solely around them. It was true then, and it…

2019 short stories

Grace Paley, short fiction, Short Stories, The Contest

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 225

300 short stories:: story 224