September 2010
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FICTION WEEK, DAY FIVE
We have reached the finalé of our first-ever Fiction Week at The American Scholar, and our parting gift is a delightful new story from David Huddle. Today, we leave you with Huddle’s High on a Hill, our Fiction Week Friday Feature. “His coffee is ready. When he pours it into his big mug, it comes to him that what he really loves, what he really, really, couldn’t ever possibly...
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FICTION WEEK, DAY FOUR
The celebration continues at The American Scholar as we reach Day Four of Fiction Week. As promised, we are publishing five new stories on our website from five contemporary writers, and today it’s Antonya Nelson’s turn with her harrowing tale, Snow White. “Upstream at least two miles, a man’s voice continued reading sonorously, as it had for an hour now, a curiously...
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FICTION WEEK, DAY THREE
We’re halfway through our first-ever Fiction Week here at The American Scholar, and today we present Bret Anthony Johnston’s brilliant response to Jamaica Kincaid’s short story, Girl. Johnston’s highly personal gender exposé, Boy, is our Fiction Week Wednesday Feature. “… drive a truck with a manual transmission; carry a knife, sharpen the blade on wet stone;...
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FICTION WEEK, DAY TWO
It’s Day Two of Fiction Week at The American Scholar, and to celebrate we’re introducing an emotional new story by Alix Ohlin. Ohlin’s appropriately titled Midnight, Tuesday is our Fiction Week Tuesday Feature. “I stick my head out the top. I look around, and I see nothing. Not one single person for miles. All I see is brown, all I see is desert for miles. After a while...
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FICTION WEEK, DAY ONE
Today, The American Scholar kicks off Fiction Week with an original work from Maud Casey. Casey’s new short story, A Series of Photographs Against a White Curtain, is our Fiction Week Monday Feature. “He unwraps the plate from its cotton cocoon. There it is, luminous: a shimmering black cloud above the man’s enormous wobbling head. An aura. What strange beauty! The man’s...
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