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The Moyea Valley Fire, Denis Johnson
When, in the summer of 1920, Robert Grainier came back from a job in the Robinson Gorge with four hundred dollars in his pocket, riding in a passenger car as far as Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and then in a wagon up the Panhandle, a fire was consuming the Moyea Valley. He rode through a steadily [...]
Writers: Denis Johnson
Three soldiers leave camp on a mission, from “To Hell With Cronjé,” by Ingrid Winterbach
(Cape Colony, South Africa, 1902) It is a clear day, with few clouds. They have not been on horseback for a long time. The cool morning air is pleasant on Reitz’s cheeks. He is grateful for a chance to get out of camp at last, even for a day or two. The plan is to [...]
Writers: Ingrid Winterbach
“The Grand Lady of My Soul,” by Goli Taraghi
Translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé This week Little Star is thrilled inaugurate our Cultural Center of Our Own series by bringing you this enchanted story by Goli Taraghi, one of the first women writers to be published and celebrated in modern Iran. The story appears in the forthcoming Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes [...]
Writers: Goli Taraghi
Kathryn Davis, “Body-without-Soul”
Two snapshots from “”Body-without-Soul,” by Kathryn Davis Eager for more? Read the whole story, coming next month in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer of Fairy Tale Review. t was a suburban street, one block long, the houses made of brick and built [...]
Writers: Kathryn Davis
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First Time in English! A Thomas Bernhard Story
“Two Tutors” will appear in a newly translated collection of Bernhard’s early stories, Prose, from Seagull Press this May (see our elated facebook post of April 28). Two Tutors While the new tutor has until now remained silent during our lunchtime walk, which to me has already become a habit, today from the start he [...]
Writers: Thomas Bernhard