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“It’s hard to get any beauty at all into a story. If and when we do, it might not be the type of beauty we’ve always dreamed of making. But we have to take whatever beauty we can get, however we can get it.”
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If you want a laugh and a thought-provoking short story, go find Saunders’ “The Falls” or “The Mom of Bold Action” (both available from The New Yorker to read or listen to via podcast).
— Mar 12, 2022 05:50PM
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If you want a laugh and a thought-provoking short story, go find Saunders’ “The Falls” or “The Mom of Bold Action” (both available from The New Yorker to read or listen to via podcast).
Clara
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Folks talk about books finding you at the right time: finding this book this week makes me believe that a little more. This makes me feel like I’m in my creative writing classes again; I forgot what that felt like. I needed to remember.
— Mar 05, 2022 09:36PM
'There, and you say you are dying! Lie still and get warm, that’s our way...' began Vasili Andreevich.
But to his great surprise he could say no more, for tears came to his eyes and his lower jaw began to quiver rapidly. He stopped speaking and only gulped down the risings in his throat. 'Seems I was badly frightened and have gone quite weak,’ he thought. But this weakness was not only unpleasant, but gave him a peculiar joy such as he had never felt before.
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