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Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Me and Miss Mandible by Donald Barthelme
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Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoheren...
Monday, 29 April 2024
Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning by Donald Barthelme
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K. Puzzled by His Children. There is something slightly foreboding about this short-story, which was written a few months before Robert Kenn...
A Cosmopolite in a Café by O. Henry
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lya Repin, Parisian Café (Le Cafе du Boulevard), 1875, oil on canvas. I wasn't exactly planning on a Monday double-feature of O. Henry s...
The Green Door by O. Henry
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Enter if you dare. Here is another decent short story by O. Henry that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. However, its "twist...
Sunday, 28 April 2024
B.F. and Me by Lucia Berlin
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Now back to our regular scheduled programming. I am drastically falling behind with reviews and need to catch up fast before many of these s...
Saturday, 27 April 2024
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez
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"Send me an angel, send me an angel, riiiight now." This is a very famous short-story by one of the most recognizable Latin Americ...
Reunion by John Cheever
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Call me Old Fashioned. This weekend we will be looking at two highly anthologized short-stories that are often considered classics to determ...
Friday, 26 April 2024
Kitty and Mack: A Love Story by Walter Dean Myers
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🎵 I was the third brother of five / Doing whatever I had to do to survive / I'm not saying what I did was alright / Tryna break out of ...
Barn Burning by Haruki Murakami
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Some men just want to watch the world burn. In many Murakami stories, an underlying melancholy is often evoked by the narrator's persona...
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