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Book of Clouds, by Chloe Aridjis

by Erika Dreifus

…nly slightly less to my own, I came in first in the Institute’s nationwide exam. The prize: a year in Berlin, free room and board, advanced German classes and a citywide travel pass. Her Berlin sojourn extends past that first year. Tatiana has spent five years in the city by the time she makes the acquaintance of Jonas, a meteorologist whom she meets when her employer sends her to interview him about a drawing he had completed years earlier as a c…


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Metaphysical Description, Or How Many Potatoes Make How Much Vodka?

by Michael Byers

…n the self, or some version of the self, as the subject—while the other is composed of Composed Describers, writers who have taken the world as their subject and, generally speaking, written about society. That this is a byproduct of the individual personalities in question seems plain. We should also note that the very greatest tend to find themselves at rather the far points on the graph, outliers here as elsewhere, and that certain stylisticall…


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Why buy the cow?

by Lee Thomas

…fits. Many authors and publishing houses now regularly post a story from a new collection or a free first chapter as a way to entice while still protecting both profit and the value of the art. One final, intriguing twist, among the top ten free e-books this week are classics of fiction, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (#2), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (#3), Pride and Prejudice (#4), and Treasure Island (#7). Perhaps the free e-book is step…


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Games Are Not About Monsters

by Christine Hartzler

…ow of the Colossus. The narrative is only ever suggested, but the gamer is completely committed to the events, even as your understanding of what is really going on gradually shifts and grows. 2. Choices. In Shadow of the Colossus, you play a man alone in the Cursed Lands. Only a hint of context is given, no explanation for his arrival there with a dead woman in his arms. The man is essentially nameless, since we don’t learn it until the end. Ther…


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Why Buy the Cow: Part II

by Celeste Ng

…yland and ECW Press), he’s giving away FREE copies of his first e-book, Single, until Labor Day. Single contains two stories that will appear in Why They Cried, including “The Cryerer”. The e-book is available for free download in a variety of formats at Hanas’s website. And if you don’t hold with this newfangled downloading business, Hanas adds that you can email or call him: “I’m not kidding. I will help you.”…


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Everything Happens As It Does, by Albena Stambolova

by Steven Wingate

…cking structure. “Other people needed to think,” writes Stambolova. “Maria simply knew things.” She appears thusly to all those who encounter her, particularly the men who fall under her spell. Some of this capacity has been passed down to her daughter Margarita, of whom it is said: “After all, she and words traveled their journeys separately.” Everyone in Stambolova’s world weaves in and our of each others’ lives. They are loners, socially skill-…


Interviews |

Antennas Sense Each Other: An Interview with Jodi Paloni

by Philip Graham

…es to Wren’s inner life. Yes, it seems quite simple at the start, and then come those plots twists and turns, but also the complex give and take between two characters trapped together with a now shared situation on their hands, the clock ticking, where the antagonist’s story, by the very nature of his story, urges the protagonist’s forward movement. Is it probable that the mere interaction of one person’s silent struggle given voice can catapult…


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Ellington Boulevard: A Novel in A-Flat, by Adam Langer

by Tori Fullard

…York real estate players can’t help but get into the game. Sixth Avenue becomes Avenue of the Americas; West Harlem becomes Manhattanville; and, yes, West 106th Street becomes Duke Ellington Boulevard. It’s here that Adam Langer begins his story about the intertwined lives of New Yorkers. On its surface, the characters are united by the sale of the two-bedroom apartment where clarinetist Ike Morphy has lived for ages. After an extended stint out…


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Site Fidelity, by Claire Boyles

by Michael Welch

…ction company and Sister Agnes locks herself to a piece of machinery to protest a new drill site near her school’s playground. Both instances feel like acts of great heroism and, unfortunately, great futility, as time and again we see the individual and the place they call home under attack from a force far out of their control: greed. Claire Boyles Ultimately, one of Boyles’s greatest achievements in this striking debut is her ability to uncover…




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