literature
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300 short stories:: story 182
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Men Without Women” author: Haruki Murakami year: 2017 where: golden chaise note: I haven’t picked up this collection since summer 2017. a line: “I already know what it is to be the second-loneliest man on earth. But I still don’t know what it is to be the loneliest. A deep gulf separates the second and the…
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300 short stories:: story 181
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Blue Tree” author: Rick Bass year: 2014-ish where: sofa and sleepy note: This story encapsulates the impermanence of things, things like youth, places, and moments, but also–the pleasure of reading a short story. I’m reading and rereading Rick Bass this week while pondering the destruction of Joshua Tree National Park and other parks…