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100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-nine
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Third and Final Continent author: Jhumpa Lahiri year: 2000 where: Art House Café note: Lahiri, a reread, and my fellow Italian language lover a line: “I was told that she could cook, knit, embroider, sketch landscapes, and recite poems by Tagore, but these talents could not make up for the fact that she did not…
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100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-two
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Way We Live Now author: Susan Sontag year: 1987 where: Abu Dhabi, after lunch note: my experiences witnessing death have been much lonelier, full of less people, the streams of visitors tapering off as things get bad, then a parade of interest and sympathy when things are gone and orderly again a line: “But this isn’t going…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 