10 Stories that I enjoyed reading the most in 2017....
#Fiction #Longreads via @Longreads

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David Gates's "Texas"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
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@pageturner Amelia Gray's "House Heart"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Longreads : @grayamelia
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@pageturner @Longreads @grayamelia Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "2 B R 0 2 B"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NarrativeMag
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Mahasweta Devi's "Draupadi"
#Fiction #Longreads via @scroll_in #MahaswetaDevi
(Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak)
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John Edgar Wideman's "Writing Teacher"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner : @NewYorker
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Sarah Boudreau's "The Birdhunter"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Little_Fiction
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Nikesh Shukla's "The Warehouse"
#Fiction #Longreads via @LitroMagazine : @nikeshshukla
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Lesley Nneka Arimah's "Who Will Greet You at Home"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @larimah
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Celeste Ng's "Girls, At Play"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BLReview : @pronounced_ing
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Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Boundary"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

I must add... Translated, from the Italian by the author. 😇#JhumpaLahiri

Ursula le Guin's "Nine Lives:
#Fiction #Longreads #UrsulaLeGuin RIP
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Ann Quin's "A Double Room"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
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Raymond Carver's "The Compartment"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
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Rachel Khong's "If A Tree Falls in a Forest"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BuzzFeedBooks : @rachelkhong
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Jeffrey Eugenides' "Bronze"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
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Katherine Karlin's "Rachel Gardner"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub : @AmeriChord : @katherinekarlin
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Ariel Dorfman's "It's a Small World"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BostonReview
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William Trevor's "Two More Gallants"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NarrativeMag
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Esme Weijun Wang's "Revere"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lennyletter : @esmewang
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Danielle Lazarin's "Appetite"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit : @d_lazarin
electricliterature.com/hunger-continu…

Anne Carson's "1-866 MRTR"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BrickMAG
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Rachel Kushner's "Stanville"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
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Stephanie Powell Watts' "Do You Remember the Summer of Love?"
#Fiction #Longreads via @byshondaland
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Tanuj Solanki's "I Had a Muslim Friend Once"
#Fiction #Longreads #Novella via @CatapultStory : @tanujsolanki
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Lara Vapnyar's "Virtual Grave"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VQR
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Ottessa Moshfegh's "The Pornographers"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VICE
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Alexendra Chang's "To Get Rich is Glorious"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Zoetrope_Mag
(Winner of 2017 Zoetrope : All Story Fiction Competition)
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Shilpi Suneja's "Unemployment"
#FIction #Longreads via @Little_Fiction : @Shilpits
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Yu Hua's "Appendix"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
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Scott O' Connor's "Soldiers"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub : @scottsoconnor
lithub.com/soldiers/

Ivan Turgnev's "First Love"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NarrativeMag
narrativemagazine.com/issues/stories…

Jac Jemc's "Trivial Pursuit"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GuernicaMag : @jacjemc
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Akhil Sharma's "Love in Varanasi"
#Fiction #Longreads via @livemint
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Adreinne Celt's "Her Beautiful Body"
#Fiction #Longreads via @strangehorizons : @celtadri
strangehorizons.com/fiction/her-be…

Lucy Ives's "Ersatz Panda"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
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Mary Gaitskill's "The Other Place"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @pageturner
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Ellen Gilchrist's "Music"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
(recommended by @LauraMLippman (
electricliterature.com/the-last-of-th…

Lynne Sharon Schwartz's "Her Native Tongue"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub
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Deb Olin Unferth's "Things That Went Wrong Thus Far"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BostonReview
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Rick Bass's "Narrows"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NarrativeMag
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Nicole Krauss's "Seeing Ershadi"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner @NYerFiction
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Jim Ruland's "Paper Masks"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit : @JimVermin
electricliterature.com/working-9-to-5…

Zsuzsa Selyem's "That Little Strip of Sunshine"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(TRanslated from Hungarian by Jim Tucker & Erika Mihalycsa)
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Wells Tower's "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
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Maile Meloy's "Madame Lazarus"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @mailemeloy
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Joseph O' Neill's "The Poltroon Husband"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Death Constant Beyond Love"
#Fiction #Longreads #GabrielGarciaMarquez #Repost
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Domenico Starnone's "Trick"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
(Translated from the Italian by #JhumpaLahiri)
electricliterature.com/jhumpa-lahiri-…

Gail Aronson's "Silk"
#Fiction #Longreads via @theoffingmag
theoffingmag.com/fiction/silk/

Jill Talbot's "Railroad Blues"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Little_Fiction : @jilltalbot
littlefiction.com/beta/RailroadB…

Bret Anthony Johnston's "To a Good Home"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VQR
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Gish Jen's "No More Maybe"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

Tsutsui Vasutaka's "The Last of the Smokers"
#Fiction #Longreads via @kyotojournal : (Reco by @Shubhlime)
(Translated from Japanese by Andrew Rankin)
kyotojournal.org/the-journal/in…

Mary Morris's "Mama's Haven"
#Fiction #Longreads via @TheAtlantic : @mmorris14
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Ryu Murakami's "In the Bar"
#Fiction #Longreads
(translated from Japanese by Ty Christian)
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Min Jin Lee's "Motherland"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Missouri_Review : @minjinlee11
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Elizabeth Weld's "Trout"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VQR : @ElizabethWeld
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Thomas Pierce's "The Stephanies"
#Fiction #Longreads via @oxfordamerican : @thomaspierce
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Tommy Orange's "The State"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker
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Courtney Zoffness's "Peanuts aren't Nuts"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ALitReview
(Short-listed for 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award)
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Ramona Ausubel's "Template for a Proclamation to Save the Species"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
electricliterature.com/the-mayor-who-…

Koga Saburo's "The Spider"
#Fiction #Longreads via @CrimeReads
(translated from Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong and John Pugmire)
crimereads.com/the-spider/

Meghna Pant's "Boongthing"
#Fiction #Longreads via @IndianQuarterly : @MeghnaPant
indianquarterly.com/boongthing/

Amber Sparks's "The Janitor in Space"
#Fiction #Longreads via @asfmag : @ambernoelle
americanshortfiction.org/2014/07/01/jan…

Benito Vergera's "A Silver of Blue Ocean"
#Fiction #Longreads via @AtticusReview
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Sam Allingham's "The Intermediate Class"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner : @SamSamAllingham
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Rachel Lyon's "Chicken"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit : @manateesintrees electricliterature.com/when-fighting-…

Alan Hollinghurst's "Highlights"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
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Laura van den Berg's "Up High in the Air"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BostonReview : @Lvandenberg
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Alicia Oltuski's "Convector"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NarrativeMag : @AliciaOltuski
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Camille Bordas's "The State of Nature"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner : @NewYorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

Sara Gallardo's "Things Happen"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(Translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira)
wordswithoutborders.org/article/april-…

Hi! @jess_sequeira Is this Short-story translated by you?
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Sonia Feigelson's "Like My Tattoo Says"
#Fiction #Longreads via @puertomag : @FeigelsonSonia
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Will Mackin's "Rib Night"
#Fiction #Longreads via @TheAtlantic
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Joyce Carol Oates's "Good News"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ACLU : @JoyceCarolOates
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Travis Dahlke's "These Are My Dress Clothes"
#Fiction #Longreads via @longleafreview
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Ellie Sawatzky's "So Long Mary-Ann"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Little_Fiction : @ellszky
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Keith Gessen's "How Did We Come to Know You?"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner : @NYerFiction : @keithgessen
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

Banana Yoshimoto's "A Strange Tale From Down by the River"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
(Translated from Japanese by Ann Sherif)
electricliterature.com/love-after-the…

Emma Copley Eisenberg's "Fat Swim"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VQR : @emmaeisenberg
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Bob Johnson's "The Samaritan"
#Fiction #Longreads via @tbr
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Michael Lowenthal's "Thieves"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GuernicaMag
guernicamag.com/thieves/

Haruki Murakami's "The Folklore of Our Times"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @pageturner
(Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum)
newyorker.com/magazine/2003/…

Yiyun Li's "A Flawless Silence"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @pageturner
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

Andrew Sean Greer's "Darkness"
#Fiction #Longreads via @agreer
(Andrew Sean Greer's Novel LESS has won 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
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Leah Mol's "Lipstick Day"
#Fiction #Longreads via @cbcbooks : @leahmol
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Tess Allard's "The World Holds What It Remembers Most"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit : @astralsled
electricliterature.com/biking-through…

Lulu Miller's "Obituary"
#Fiction #Longreads via @VQR : @lmillernpr
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Robert Coover's "Treatments"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner : @NewYorker @NYerFiction
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

Majidah al-Outoum's "The Village Idiot"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub : @commonmag
(Translated by Alice Guthrie)
lithub.com/the-village-id…

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's "Our Beans Grow Fat Upon the Storm"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit
electricliterature.com/lullabies-for-…

Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's "Devdas"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(Translated from Bengali by @arunava ) #Excerpt
wordswithoutborders.org/article/decemb…

#Devdas was written in 1917 by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It is arguably the most adapted story of Indian Cinema... Numerous versions of this classic (and many more films which take-off from the material) have been made... latest being Sudhir Mishra's #Daasdev.

Jamie Quatro's "Wave Function Collapse"
#Fiction #Longreads via @oxfordamerican : @jamiequatro
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Nick Fuller Googins's "Motivated Individuals"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub : @southern_review : @fullergo
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Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Boarder"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @pageturner : @NYerFiction
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

Lauren Groff's "Exquisite Corpse"
#Fiction #Longreads via @commonmag : @legroff
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Juan Villoro's "Holding Pattern"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders : @JuanVilloro56
(Translated from Spanish by Lisa M Dillman)
wordswithoutborders.org/article/holdin…

Susan Straight's "The Perseids"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GrantaMag
granta.com/the-perseids/

Farah Ali's "Foreigners"
#Fiction #Longreads via @EcotoneMagazine
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Amy Bloom's "From Here and Here"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NarrativeMag : @AmyBloomBooks
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Edwidge Danticat's "Without Indspection"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @NYerFiction : @pageturner newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

Porochista Khakpour's "Pariah and I"
#Fiction #Longreads via @BennReview : @PKhakpour
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Lynn Coady's "Someone Is Recording"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit : @Lynn_Coady
electricliterature.com/how-many-email…

Michael Chabon's "Switzerland Today"
#Fiction #Longreads via @tabletmag
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Gabrille Hovendon's "Bonnie, Patty, Kid Glove, Ma"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Little_Fiction
littlefiction.com/beta/BonniePat…

Oops... It should be Gabrielle... Apologies.

Michael Croley's "Larger than the Sea"
#Fiction #Longreads via @CatapultStory : @MJ_Croley
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Saadat Hasan Manto's "Ten Rupees" and "Mozelle"
#Fiction #Longreads #Manto
(Translated from Urdu by Matt Reeck & Aftab Ahmed)
intranslation.brooklynrail.org/urdu/ten-rupee…

सआदत हसन मंटो की कहानी "दस रूपये"
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John L'Heureux's "The Long Black Line"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker : @NYerFiction @pageturner newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

William Trevor's "Taking Mr. Ravenswood"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub
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Thomas Bolt's "Inversion of Marcia"
#Fiction #Longreads via @nplusonemag : @ThomasBolt
(Winner of the 2018 O. Henry Prize for Best Short Stories)
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Jamil Kochai's "Nights in Logar"
#Fiction #Longreads via @APublicSpace
(Winner of the 2018 O. Henry Prize for Best Short Stories)
apublicspace.org/magazine/detai…

Youmna Chlala's "Nyla"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub
(Winner of the 2018 O. Henry Prize for Best Short Stories)
lithub.com/nayla/

Thomas Wolfe's "O, the Big-Time Game-Time Show-Time Roll"
#Fiction #Longreads via @esquire #ThomasWolfeRIP
(Out of Paywall for limited period)
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Ben Marcus's "Stay Down and Take It."
#Fiction #Longreads via @NewYorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

Preti Taneja's "Letter X"
#Fiction #Longreads via @livemint : @PretiTaneja
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Philip Roth's "Paul Loves Libby"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Harpers #PhilipRothRIP
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Olga Tokarczuk's "The Knight"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(Translated from Polish by @jenniferlcroft )
[Winners of International Man Booker Prize 2018 for FLIGHTS]
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Rabindranath Tagore's "Kabuliwala"
#Fiction #Longreads
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Couldn't find Translator's name....

रबिन्द्रनाथ टैगोर की कहानी "काबुलीवाला"
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Mark Jude Poirier's "How We Eat"
#Fiction #Longreads via @lithub : @markjudep
[Winner of 2018 O. Henry Prize for Best Short-Stories]
lithub.com/how-we-eat/

Stephen King's "Laurie"
#Fiction #Longreads via @StephenKing
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David Gilbert's "Fungus"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
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Karen Russell's "Orange World"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
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Olivia Maia's "Coffee Stain"
#Fiction #Longreads via @CrimeReads : @nyex
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Carissa Halston's "The Exact Same Prize"
#Fiction #Longreads via @LongformFiction : @longform : @CarissaHalston
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Lu Yang's "Silver Tiger"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
(Translated from the Chinese by Eric Abrahamsen}
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Abilio Estevez's "The Lagoon"
#Fiction #Longreads via @wwborders
(translated from Spanish by David Lisenby)
wordswithoutborders.org/article/june-2…

Helen DeWitt's "On the Town"
#Fiction #Longreads via @ElectricLit : @helendewitt
electricliterature.com/a-new-short-st…

Kamila Shamsie's "Our Dead, Your Dead"
#Fiction #Longreads via @GuardianBooks : @kamilashamsie
(Kamila Shamsie's HOME FIRE won 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction)

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Debra Jo Immergut's "Iggy, Summer"
#Fiction #Longreads via @NarrativeMag : @debraimmergut
narrativemagazine.com/issues/stories…

Ursula K Le Guin's "Pity and Shame"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Tin_House : @ursulaleguin

tinhouse.com/pity-and-shame/

Weike Wang's "Omakase"
#Fiction #Longreads via @pageturner
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

Katherine Mansfield's "A Dill Pickle"
#Fiction #Longreads via @berfrois
berfrois.com/2018/05/a-dill…

Carmen Maria Machado's "Mary When You Follow Her"
#Fiction via @VQR : @carmenmmachado
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Ian Rankin's "Charades"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Countrylifemag : @Beathhigh #JohnRebus
countrylife.co.uk/country-life/c…