April 8, 2025
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The Maintenance of Headway
Magnus Mills
“In the days of conductors, of course, such matters could be dealt with speedily. A conductor like Gunter, for instance, would locate the offender and tell them in no uncertain terms to leave the bell alone.”
The Eternal Mystery of the Reclusive Writer
From Mitchell to Pynchon to Ferrante, Why We Love the Hermits
The Loved Ones
Mary-Beth Hughes
“Nick Devlin leaned into the gilded mirror and focused, wiped his hair back with one hand, rubbed his eyes. A wince played then vanished and he tucked in his shirttails.”
Plainsong
Kent Haruf
“Maggie Jones drove out to the McPherons’ on a cold Saturday afternoon. Seventeen miles southeast of Holt.”
Return to The South: On Colm Tóibín’s First Novel
A Look at the Early Work of "Ireland's Greatest Living Writer"
I’d Walk With My Friends if I Could Find Them
Jesse Goolsby
“Seven weeks pregnant and nauseated enough to search for the women’s bathroom, Kristen sweats in the “Express—twenty items or less” line at the Susanville Walmart and tries to calm her stomach and mind; she regrets the Jack in the Box tacos she had for lunch, and her mind replays her answer to Wintric’s question about an abortion: “I don’t know.”
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