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A Good Samaritan and a Giant Meet on the Beach
"The First Day of What Remained for Tedman Ward" by Nell Hanley, about a moment of reprieve for two lonely middle-aged men
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Why Do They Think They Know Me?
A story about the loneliness of desire from James Alan McPherson’s 1968 debut collection
Jul 3 - James Alan McPherson
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Everything I Don’t Remember About the Day My Father Died
A woman returns to her Mississippi Delta hometown in this excerpt from 'The Gone Dead' by Chanelle Benz
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The Allen Ginsberg-Charles Schulz Mashup You Didn’t Know You Needed
"Grief (For Linus Van Pelt)," a poem by Jonathan Lethem
Jul 22 - Jonathan Lethem
All Nakedness Ends in Death
"i like to get naked" and "skeleton of glass and marmalade," two poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Jul 15 - Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
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Time and Gravity Hit the Open Road
"Equations for a Falling Body," a short story by Kimberly Glanzman
Jul 8 - Kimberly Glanzman
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Broke Down in the Desert with a Box of Bibles
An excerpt from The Wind That Lays Waste, by Argentinian author Selva Almada
Jul 1 - Selva Almada
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Oct 12 - Ted Chiang
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A Mother With Grown Children Is a Controlled Experiment
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"Model Boy," excerpted from the novel 'The History of Living Forever' by Jake Wolff
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Shitty Boyfriends of Western Literature: The Card Game
Gather your friends and challenge heteronormative romantic ideals!
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Lenin’s Corpse Won’t Look This Good Forever
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