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Flash Fiction
“Director’s Cut”
“Post-production took a hundred and fourteen years.”
By Etgar Keret
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Flash Fiction
“Have You Ever Met One?”
“I answered that I’d been visited by three ghosts.”
By Rivka Galchen
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Flash Fiction
“How Many”
“He is a nurse, and he is in scrubs, and he asks if you want to eat in the cafeteria, but the hospital reminds you of your mom. You can’t finish your food.”
By Bryan Washington
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Flash Fiction
“An Evening with Joseph Conrad”
“How they got to talking about white bread he could not remember afterward, but it shone in his mind, this conversation, as the bread had shone.”
By Anne Carson
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Flash Fiction
“Everyone Cried”
“Often, people cry when they are unhappy. This is natural.”
By Lydia Davis
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Personal History
Teach Yourself Italian
From 2015: For a writer, a foreign language is a new kind of adventure, Jhumpa Lahiri, who was born on this day in 1967, writes.
By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Reflections
Growing Up as a Writer
How a childhood pastime became a vocation.
By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Fiction
“The Boundary”
“After just a few hours, it’s as if they’d always lived here. The things they’ve brought for a week in the country are scattered all over the place.”
By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Watch
“Grosse Fatigue” Tells the Story of Life on Earth
The French artist Camille Henrot’s thirteen-minute video-art masterpiece mashes up creation myths and scientific theories, art, poetry, and the human body.
By Kyle Chayka
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Q. & A.
The New Head of Simon & Schuster on Diversity in Publishing
Dana Canedy, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and the imprint’s soon-to-be publisher, discusses the types of diversity she hopes to foster in her new role.
By Isaac Chotiner
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