Tin House
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300 short stories: story 269
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Shared Patio” author: Miranda July year: 2007 where: Reed College at Writer Jim Shepard’s Close Reading Craft Talk. An amazing experience! note: I bought July’s book, No One Belongs Here More Than You, years ago at the cozy Barnes and Nobles on 6th Avenue in New York. That outpost has since closed. I…
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300 short stories: story 268
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Contract Overseas” author: Mia Alvar year: 2015 where: Bagdad Theater on Hawthorne Blvd. note: I love brother sister sibling stories. This collection was recommended to me in Aspen. a line: “After the cafés closed, they spilled into the dormitories to prolong such life-and-death debates as whether literature had social duties, as Salvador Lopez believed, or…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 