Abu Dhabi
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300 short stories: story 242
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Falling Girl” author: Dino Buzzati year: 2018 where: Morning with coffee, kitchen table note: I read this story in English (Translated by Lawrence Venuti), but now I am on the hunt to read it in its original Italian. a line: “The beautiful people, then, were interested in her and that filled her with satisfaction.…
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300 short stories: story 241
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” author: Denis Johnson year: 2018 where: Le Brioche note: This is the title story from Johnson’s collection and is an assigned reading for my workshop class in Aspen Words. a line: “Rather than memorializing him, we found ourselves asking, ‘Who the hell was this guy?” theme(s): Aging, death, career
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 