literature
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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…
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100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty & thirty-one
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Helping author: Robert Stone year: 1988 where: kitchen table, Italy, making coffee note: a favorite-favorite a line: “’Sometimes,’ Elliot said, ‘I try to imagine what it’s like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern.’” story: Haircut author: Ring Lardner year: 1925 where: bed, Gaggio Montano note: yesterday, at La Feltrinelli Bookstore, I spotted a Ring Lardner collection…