literary quotes
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300 short stories:: story 105
Samantha Neugebauer
story: AEDINOSAUR author: Lara Prescott year: 2016 where: poolside, Reem Island–too cold to swim note: a crazyhorse read, a bit Mad Men meets international espionage, fun fun a line: “Doctor Zhivago reached its author two weeks before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.’”
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300 short stories:: story 103
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Train to Harbin author: Asako Serizawa year: 2016 where: Abu Dhabi, my gold chaise lounge note: This is a story both epic and intimately personal about a Japanese doctor stationed in Pingfang (now Northern China, then the Japanese puppet-state Manchukuo) during WWII, where terrible war crimes, including human experimentation, were committed. a line: “Perhaps it is simply the mind, which, in its inability to accept a fact, returns to it, sharpening the details, resolving…