Tag: reading
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Finding the Dog Dead
Lodged in the “Parables” section of David Shields’ and Elizabeth Cooperman’s anthology Life is Short — Art is Shorter, “The School” is cited as “articulating [Donald Barthelme’s] entire vision of the world.” The categorization is justified on the grounds …
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Inattention Versus the Ant
The first time I read Stuart Dybek’s “Ant” from Ecstatic Cahoots, I failed to perceive its motion. Even primed for the fantastical (though not trained to expect it unfailingly by the collection it’s in), the story opened …