2019 short stories
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300 short stories: story 256
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Our Mothers Before Them” author: Jenny Zhang, who I stumbled upon at Shakespeare & Company last summer in Paris year: 2017 where: Abu Dhabi note: From the NYer, “Sour Heart is a feminist bildungsroman—the narrators act upon their world just as much as the world acts upon them—and it depicts, from start to finish, a…
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300 short stories: story 254 & 255
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Fifth Story” & “Happy Endings” author: Clarice Lispector & Margaret Atwood year: here and there 🙂 1950s & 1980s where: Abu Dhabi note: Putting these two together since their forms are similar. a line: “In the mouths of some of the cockroaches, there are traces of white powder. I am the first to observe the…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 