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Read a Short: February 2010
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A short story blog. Monday, February 1, 2010. I plan to start updating this blog about once or twice a month. But, I also wanted to spread the word about my new blog. You can find me posting more regularly on www.ilivewelive.com. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). You can also find me blogging at www.ilivewelive.com. View my complete profile. Three Lives and Company. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
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Read a Short: June 2008
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A short story blog. Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Mother by Grace Paley. One day I was listening to the AM radio. I heard a song: "Oh, I Long to See My Mother in the Doorway." By God! She asked this question without humor or meanness. She had begun her worried preparations for death. She would not be present, she thought, when I was twenty. So she wondered. . At the door of the kitchen she said, You never finish your lunch. You run around senselessly. What will become of you? Then she died. . They sat in com...
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Read a Short: Courtesy for Beginners by Jim Shepard
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A short story blog. Saturday, April 19, 2008. Courtesy for Beginners by Jim Shepard. I first met Jim Shepard . In the instant when he began his lecture I felt a longing to have been in one of his classes. He is that kind of a teacher. . Later on in the week he gave a reading of a story from his new short story collection Like You'd Understand, Anyway. . And then I couldn't believe that I hadn't heard of him. I couldn't understand why he wasn't hugely famous. . But what makes this story different is that...
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Read a Short: In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried by Amy Hempel
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A short story blog. Wednesday, April 9, 2008. In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried by Amy Hempel. In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried. Is a short story that I go back to time and again. With each read, a new layer, a new element, something very subtle is revealed. . L is one of my favorite writers. This story comes from her first collection, Reason to Live. 160;and is also anthologized in The Collected Stories. 160;begins lightly. . She says of her dying best friend: . View my complete profile.
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Read a Short: More Hempel
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A short story blog. Thursday, April 10, 2008. No, not another of her stories. Not so soon, anyway. . But there is exciting news. I'm interviewing Amy Hempel for my thesis! If she allows me, I will post the interview here. . Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You can also find me blogging at www.ilivewelive.com. View my complete profile. Courtesy for Beginners by Jim Shepard. In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried by Amy H. Three Lives and Company. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
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Read a Short: May 2008
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A short story blog. Friday, May 9, 2008. I'm back. . Came up to me to say that they liked the piece I read. . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). You can also find me blogging at www.ilivewelive.com. View my complete profile. Three Lives and Company. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
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Read a Short: Sleep
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A short story blog. Saturday, June 14, 2008. In this week's issue of The New Yorker (the summer fiction issue) I read an essay by Haruki Murakami. About his start as a writer and his parallel life as a runner. The essay was lovely and . Informative and I'm happy to have read it. But even though I was inspired, I was also envious, a feeling I rarely experience. . How could he have forgotten about it? 160;which is lovely on every level and Kafka on the Shore. 160;his first collection of short stories. ...
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Read a Short: Mother by Grace Paley
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A short story blog. Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Mother by Grace Paley. One day I was listening to the AM radio. I heard a song: "Oh, I Long to See My Mother in the Doorway." By God! She asked this question without humor or meanness. She had begun her worried preparations for death. She would not be present, she thought, when I was twenty. So she wondered. . At the door of the kitchen she said, You never finish your lunch. You run around senselessly. What will become of you? Then she died. . They sat in com...
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Read a Short: New Blog
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A short story blog. Monday, February 1, 2010. I plan to start updating this blog about once or twice a month. But, I also wanted to spread the word about my new blog. You can find me posting more regularly on www.ilivewelive.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You can also find me blogging at www.ilivewelive.com. View my complete profile. Three Lives and Company. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
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Read a Short: July 2008
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A short story blog. Sunday, July 6, 2008. Persepolis by Marjene Satrapi. It's not a short story, I know. I'm late to the game, I know that too. But I'm so glad I finally read it. Once I picked up this book, I couldn't put it down. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). You can also find me blogging at www.ilivewelive.com. View my complete profile. Persepolis by Marjene Satrapi. Three Lives and Company. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.