Heidi Julavits Guest Edits Recommended Reading

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Heidi Julavits, the award-winning author of The Vanishers and co-Editor of The Believer, is the guest editor of the latest issue of Recommended Reading. This week’s story, Adam Wilson’s “The Long In-Between,” will appear in his forthcoming collection What’s Important is Feeling. In her introduction, Heidi calls “The Long In-Between” “incredibly funny” and “a great relief to read.”

Read the story for free online, get it for Kindle, or download it on the Recommended Reading app for iPhone and iPad.