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Cat in the Rain
An Incident
The Stone Boy
My First Goose
Essays on Craft and Writing
I Stand Here Ironing
Office Hours
The Doll's House
The Gilded Six-Bits
In the Basement
Anyone Can Do It
Flowering Judas
The Lady with the Dog
CommComm
Twenty Minutes
Her Father's House
An Honest Thief
The Overcoat
August
The Devil
The Jilting of Granny Weather…
Boule de Suif
The Child
The Rockpile
Guy de Mauppasant
Enemies
A Conversation with my Father
Light Breathing
Clay
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
A Christmas Carol
After The Ball
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Whistle
The Dwarf Pine
Paper Pills
Young Goodman Brown
A Fabulous Animal
The Coffin Maker (aka The Und…
The First Full Thought of Her…
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Let's Think About Style
By way of Henry Green
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April 2026
Odds and Ends
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"The First Full Thought of Her Life"
In which Deb Olin Unferth answers our questions.
Apr 26
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"The First Full Thought of Her Life"
A (harrowing, brilliant) story by Deb Olin Unferth
Apr 19
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On Taking Ownership
And a tribute to the great Michael Silverblatt
Apr 16
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A New Story for Us
As in, contemporary (!)
Apr 12
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Some Process Stuff on "Vigil"
The (so-called, by me) "Meaning Outline."
Apr 5
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March 2026
"The House with the Mezzanine"
My response to my own assignment...which, as in my real college days, is late.
Mar 30
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"Lose the quotation marks?" he asked. Sure, why not, I replied.
Office Hours
Mar 26
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Why Do We Think What We Think of Him?
That is, of the narrator of "The House with the Mezzanine?" Or, for that matter, any first-person narrator?
Mar 22
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A Daily Show Appearance
...last night!
Mar 18
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A Chekhov Surrogate
On becoming obsessed after second reads
Mar 15
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