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Selected Shorts Archive

June 2009

Postcards from the Edge

Sunday, June 21, 2009

"You don’t know what it’s like to lose something forever. It will make you do anything, even lie to people you love, if you think you can reclaim even a fraction of that thing." – Ann Beattie, “What Was Mine.”
Talking with dogs; imaginary gardens, and what a father is, in three tales by eclectic authors.


Hints of Madness

Sunday, June 14, 2009

"If someone in this country is crazy enough to climb up a tree, you can be sure it is Sampath." – Kiran Desai, “The Sermon in the Guava Tree.”
Ordinary people cross the threshold in tales by Booker Prize-winner Kiran Desai and Etgar Keret.