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Agri Ismaïl
My idea, then, was to write a work with a satirical tone but where every detail was grounded in reality (there are three lies in the book, of which two are uttered by characters and not the narrator, we’ll get back to the third), hoping that this would help loosen the springs of the genre.
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Surrender Calls
Angela Townsend
People call to give us their cats because we are a shelter. People call to give us their cats because they are moving to Oregon. People call to give us their cats even though they are not the kind of people who give up their cats. People call to give us their cats because their…
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Grace Before the Fall
Catherine Gammon
Geri Lipschultz’s Grace Before the Fall is a book of madness and wonders. The foreword, by John Irving, invites the reader to think of the book as “magical realism meets Alice in Wonderland.” But magical realism is grounded in realism in ways that Grace Before the Fall is not and doesn’t aspire to be. This…
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Just Another Saturday Night
Dawn Tasaka Steffler
At three in the morning, the redheaded skater from LA who lives in room 307 gets back from a party. He goes into the bathroom and wrinkles his nose; there’s the usual piss and Clorox smell but also the unmistakable waft of puke. Standing at the urinal, he thinks he hears something, a hitched breath,…
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The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran
Megan Peck Shub
In this era of bite-sized attention spans, certain novels remind you that it’s worth appreciating, from time to time, the distinctive power of the form. Along with the television series, where writers have resources to probe extended storylines and complex characters, the novel is well suited to negotiating our stickiest quandaries. The Nights are Quiet…
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Excerpt from The Morgue Keeper
Ruyan Meng
He knew it was her the moment he entered the park. She sat on a bench, her back straight and legs crossed, holding a knee with both hands. The park had once been a wealthy family’s private rock garden.
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Tidal Lock
Lindsey Drager
Tidal Lock, Lindsay Hill’s second novel, might just as easily be called a commonplace book or a work of long-form prose poetry. Essay, story, case study, character sketch, or something in between, what Tidal Lock offers is undeniably beautiful and haunting. The novel is at once an elegy to consciousness overwhelmed by grief and a…
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The Hitch
Sara Levine
The Hitch is about a woman whose life explodes when her six-year-old nephew confides he is possessed by the soul of a dead corgi. Last month a journalist interviewed me about the novel and, in response to a question about horror fiction, I rattled off all the books with possession plots I had read as…
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Don’t Come Looking For Me
Lauren Osborn
Something is killing people. We noticed them missing too late, pretending as if all our friends and coworkers had decided to visit their childhood homes, far off in foreign-sounding cities, but forgot to tell us they were leaving. Except no one’s on vacation. They’re gone. Our newly developed neighborhood is nearly empty now. Sometimes cars…
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Simone in Pieces
Martin Horn
Simone in Pieces tells the story of Simone Lerrante, a Belgian war orphan and child refugee. Her story unfolds through multiple points of view, shifting between the Simone and those whose lives intersect with hers. These shifting perspectives invite the reader to build their own understanding of her, piece by piece, in a process that…
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Points of light, day 4
Various Authors
In these days between solstice and the new year we bring you a gathering of writers responding to the turn of seasons and time. Today we are pleased to share writing by Rachel M. Hollis, Bethany Bruno, Gabriella Navas, Caroline Clark, Vaughn M. Watson, Elodie Ashcroft, Gideon Leek, Kathryn Reese, Emil DeAndreis, Michael Hyde, and…