fiction
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300 short stories: story 244
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Eating Fish Alone” author: Lydia Davis year: 2014 where: Home, in bed note: In The New Yorker, Davis’ eyes have been described as “blue milk glass”…and this sentence could almost constitute the length of an average story by Davis. In truth, I’ve read several dozen of her stories this week, but they are so short,…
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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 