Short Stories
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300 short stories: story 298
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Tancredi” author: Barbara Alberti (translated by Lawrence Venuti)/didn’t have access to the Italian year: 1976 where: Al Reem note: Much like the form of Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech, when asked to explain this story, Alberti, instead of answering straightforwardly, tells another story. a line: “She nursed the baby with one mouth at each breast, and she…
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300 short stories: story 294
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella” author: Fernando Sorrentino year: 1970 where: the Ikea kitchen table note: A must-read. a line: “All he does is hit me. He accompanies me in all my acts–even the most intimate ones. I remember, in the beginning, that the blows kept…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 