The Paris Review
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300 short stories: story 240
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “House of Women” author: Susan Minot year: 1991 where: the gold sofa note: This story was brilliant not only for its evocative descriptions of coastal nature, but also because of its blatant realism about how women talking together can manage to “resurrect” our ex-boyfriends, lovers, and husbands. a line: “By the time the thunder had grown…
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300 short stories:: story 206
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Dramas” author: Edna O’Brien year: 1989 where: mio ufficio note: from the Paris Review a line: “When the new shopkeeper arrived in the village he aroused great curiosity along with some scorn. He was deemed refined because his fingernails looked as if they had been varnished a tinted ivory. “
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 