Paul Madonna Moves on to the Next Dream
We are excited to offer a preview of artwork from Paul Madonna's new book, On to the Next Dream, alongside an interview with our current Comics Editor, Brandon Hicks, and an exclusive excerpt.
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Donald Barthelme
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Waves and Illusions
On the latest New Yorker fiction podcast, Etgar Keret treats listeners to a reading of Donald Barthelme’s “Chablis”. Afterwards, he and Deborah Treissman chat about voice, babies, and how writing short stories…
This Week in Short Fiction: Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
Probably more than anything else, sheer curiosity propels readers through [Silvina Ocampo's] stories.
The Course Syllabi of Famous Writers
Imagine if the authors who created these syllabi for their courses were all teaching at the same school at the same time. “Who’d you get for English?” “David Foster Wallace. I…
The Withdrawal Method
In his introduction to the Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Ben Marcus writes that the best contemporary fiction synthesizes the heartfelt and the innovative.