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Dreams are Contagious
“That’s the fifth one this week,” I told Zuzanna from the other room. “They are all having dreams about Donald Trump.
Trial
A young family is torn apart by the military junta in Argentina.
Dangerfield Describes a Sky
Once Dangerfield was on top of the world, but that was almost twenty years ago now. He didn’t even work at it back then; it just flowed out of him ...
Much Bothered With Buffalo
Unearthing the pioneer women of the emigrant trails.
Excavating a Painful Past: Author Q&A with Wendy C. Ortiz
Fourteen years later, Wendy C. Ortiz sifts the relics of an illicit relationship between teacher and student in her memoir Excavation.
It’s Bedlam: Sense and Sensibility & The Seagull
The Bedlam Theatre Company’s lively and innovative adaptations breathe new energy into Austen and Chekov classics.
The Three Horsemen: Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Sir Salman Rushdie at 92Y, New York
Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie were figureheads of late twentieth-century literary London – the last great era of British fiction. So what happened when the three of them ...
The Hollywood
Last year, a new shopping centre opened on the outskirts of London. There’s something for everyone: expensive shit, cheap shit, mid-priced shit, all laid out in a sort of class ...
For the Love of Leftovers
This blog series has been about my discovery of UK culture, but this particular article is inspired by a recent trip home to the States – a trip that showed ...
Are You Posh?
Stand-up comedian John Bishop
Accents fascinate me. I’m guilty of half-listening to people, half trying to figure out their accent. If we watch John Bishop’s stand-up routines, my husband has to ...
Birthday Americana
One. I’m in a yellow highchair, the same color as the sculpted carpet. In front of me is a cake, frosted to look like flower petals. I don’t yet understand ...
Remex and Rectrix
‘That’s what girls with powerful fathers do.’ A slave for ever dilutes with dignity the fiction of love. The truth of this is spectacular. That even the mechanism of nature ...
A Backwards Story of a Backwards Man
The night A.W. thought he won the megabucks he flicked on a small lamp in the corner of the room and rushed a Yuengling from the fridge. After a clack, ...
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Litro #117: America
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Litro #117: America—Editors’ Letter
America, that slippery beast. One nation, one constitution, one currency: a framework for arguably the most diverse, remarkable and undefinable country in the world. But short stories are something of ...
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The Night Ridge
I love you. These simple words knock against the inside of his head the same way police knock. Hard. Loveless. I love you. He sits in a backward chair by ...
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A Trip to America
‘Excuse me. Does this train go to Ames?’ Taeko Endo asked a woman reading a newspaper in one of the seats near the door.
‘Yes, it does,’ the woman answered, smiling.
Taeko ...
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Amboy: A Walk in the Ruins
Amboy is a place in the Mojave desert, about 200 miles east of Los Angeles. I hesitate to call it a town: undoubtedly that’s what it used to be, and ...
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Jim Morrison
On mornings like this as I drive toward work at 6:21 am
4th Street stretches ahead
without end
as I stick my arm out my window and roll back
my sunroof as the sky ...
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Carter Jackson — Rat Hunting
I grew up duck hunting. Which I never really liked because you had to wake up at some obscene hour, wade through a freezing swamp and sit in a dark ...