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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…
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"Paper Pills"
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Flying Elephants
A deep question that, I bet, many of us are thinking about...
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The Manner of the Telling
First thoughts on "Paper Pills"
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Tenth of December
A recording from George Saunders's live video
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Some News on "Vigil"
Plus a peek at the unfolded, actual cover: a bonus (Monday!) post
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A Story For Us
"Paper Pills" by Sherwood Anderson
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November 2025
It Was All a Dream! (But What If It Wasn't?)
Further Thoughts on "The Coffin Maker"
Nov 30
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A Question about The Question
A few more ways of thinking about what a story is...
Nov 27
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My Travels, plus a Visit from the Dead
"The Coffin Maker," first reactions...
Nov 23
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A New Story
"The Coffin Maker," by Alexander Pushkin
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Coming to the U.K....
And Happy Birthday, Paula! (A bonus post)
Nov 13
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A Crisis...
...that might explain a lot.
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