Short Stories
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100 days 100 short stories:: story 40
Samantha Neugebauer
story: A Permanent Member of the Family author: Russell Banks year: 2013 where: taxi ride home note: reading American writers during this week of sadness for America a line: “So when one loses it prematurely, in childhood and adolescence, through divorce or the sudden early death of a parent or, more usually, war, it can leave one fixated…
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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…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 