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short fiction
Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver:
Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?
Or, Who We [Should] Talk About When We Talk About Realism
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Julien C. Levy
| April 23, 2025
Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris
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An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women
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Reality is Not Conventional: An Interview with Deborah Eisenberg
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| September 25, 2018
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