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Episodes: 178
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The Naples Writers' Workshop presents lessons from successful writing
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176: “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
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May 15, 2026 |
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175: “Foster” by Claire Keegan
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May 01, 2026 |
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174: “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country” by William H Gass
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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173: “Teenage Wasteland” by Anne Tyler
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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172: “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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171: The Wedding Party by Taylor Koekkoek
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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170: “Eveline” by James Joyce
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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169: “A Millionaire’s Girl” by Zelda Fitzgerald
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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168: “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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167: “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” by Yasunari Kawabata
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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166: “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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165: “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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164: “Hollow” by Breece D’J Pancake
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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163: “The Enormous Radio” by John Cheever
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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162: “A Conversation with My Father” by Grace Paley
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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161: “A Manual for Cleaning Women” by Lucia Berlin
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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160: “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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159: “Wood Sorrel House” by Zach Williams
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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158: “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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157: “Found Objects” by Jennifer Egan
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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156: “Two Words” by Isabel Allende
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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155: “The Piano Teacher’s Pupil” by William Trevor
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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154: “Nine Lives” by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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153: “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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152: “How to Be an Other Woman” by Lorrie Moore
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May 15, 2025 |
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151: “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson
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May 01, 2025 |
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150: “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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149: “The Martyr” by Mary Gordon
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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148: “A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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147: “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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146: “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” by J. D. Salinger
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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145: “Unaccompanied Sonata” by Orson Scott Card
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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144: “The Werewolf” by Angela Carter
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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143: “Zombie” by Joyce Carol Oates
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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142: “The Wind” by Lauren Groff
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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141: “These Golden Cities” by K. David Wade
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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140: “Non-Zero Probabilities” by N. K. Jemisin
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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139: “A Telephone Call” by Dorothy Parker
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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138: Curtis Sittenfeld vs ChatGPT
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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137: “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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136: “The Celestial Omnibus” by E. M. Forster
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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135: “The Complete” by Gabriel Smith
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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134: “Sour Milk Girls” by Erin Roberts
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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133: “An Outpost of Progress” by Joseph Conrad
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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132: “The Island of the Immortals” by Ursula K Le Guin
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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131: “Jeffty is Five” by Harlan Ellison
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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130: “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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129: “Separating” by John Updike
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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128: “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” by Isaac Asimov
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May 15, 2024 |
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127: “The Frog King” by Garth Greenwell
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May 01, 2024 |
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126: “The Destructors” by Graham Greene
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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125: “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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124: “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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123: “Woman at Exhibition” by E. Lily Yu
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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122: “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” by Denis Johnson
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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121: “When Stars Collide” by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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120: “The Dead” by James Joyce
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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119: “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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118: “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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117: “Drive My Car” by Haruki Murakami
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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116: “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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115: “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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114: “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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113: “And of Clay Are We Created” by Isabel Allende
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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112: “Spring in Fialta” by Vladimir Nabokov
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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111: “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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110: “This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen” by Tadeusz Borowski
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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109: “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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108: “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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107: “How to Eat Chicken Wings” by Kristen Arnett
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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106: “The Frog Prince” by Robert Coover
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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105: “Milkwishes” by Kristen Roupenian
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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104: “Redemption” by John Gardner
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May 15, 2023 |
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103: “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri
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May 01, 2023 |
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102: “The Worshipful Society of Glovers” by Mary Robinette Kowal
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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101: “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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100: “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Joyce Carol Oates
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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099: “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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098: “The Father” by Raymond Carver
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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097: “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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096: “Incarnations of Burned Children” by David Foster Wallace
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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095: “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning” by Haruki Murakami
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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094: “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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093: “Dinosaur” by Bruce Holland Rogers
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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092: “The Venus Effect” by Violet Allen
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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091: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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090: “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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089: “Escape from Spiderhead” by George Saunders
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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088: “Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station” by Caroline M. Yoachim
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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087: “The Swimmer” by John Cheever
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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086: “Wikihistory” by Desmond Warzel
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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085: “The Black Phone” by Joe Hill
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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084: “Referential” by Lorrie Moore
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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083: “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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082: “The Future is Blue” by Catherynne M. Valente
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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081: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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080: “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
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May 15, 2022 |
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079: “Town of Birds” by Heather Monley
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May 01, 2022 |
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078: “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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077: “The Hunter’s Wife” by Anthony Doerr
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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076: “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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075: “Sweethearts” by Richard Ford
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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074: “This Is Pleasure” by Mary Gaitskill
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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073: “Snow” by Dale Bailey
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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072: “Leaf by Niggle” by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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071: “This is How You Fail to Ghost Him” by Victoria McCurdy
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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070: “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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069: “Ghosts and Empties” by Lauren Groff
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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068: “The Country of the Blind” by H. G. Wells
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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067: “Sea Oak” by George Saunders
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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066: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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065: “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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064: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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063: “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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062: “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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061: “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses” by Irwin Shaw
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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First Person: Interview with Richard Bausch
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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060: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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059: “Herman Wouk is Still Alive” by Stephen King
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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First Person: Interview with Benjamin Percy
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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058: “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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057: “With the Beatles” by Haruki Murakami
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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056: “The Prairie Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld
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May 15, 2021 |
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055: “Wake for Susan” by Cormac McCarthy
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May 01, 2021 |
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054: “Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure” by Téa Obreht
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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053: “The Comet” by W. E. B. Du Bois
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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052: “The Art of Losing” by Yoon Choi
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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051: “The Saddest Case of True Love” by Simon Van Booy
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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050: “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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049: “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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048: “Symbols and Signs” by Vladimir Nabokov
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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047: “Trilobites” by B. D’J. Pancake
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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046: “Cougar” by Maria Anderson
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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045: “White Noise” by Emma Cline
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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044: “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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043: “The Feminist” by Tony Tulathimutte
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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042: “God’s Work” by Kevin Canty
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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041: “The Fifth Story” by Clarice Lispector
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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040: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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039: “River of Names” by Dorothy Allison
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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038: “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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037: “A&P” by John Updike
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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036: “The Pugilist at Rest” by Thom Jones
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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035: “Girl Alone” by Sallie Bingham
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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034: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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033: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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032: The Lost World by Michael Crichton
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May 15, 2020 |
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031: “Gator Butchering for Beginners” by Kristen Arnett
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May 01, 2020 |
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030: “Woodland” by Lydia Millet
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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029: “The School” by Donald Barthelme
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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028: “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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027: “Baader-Meinhof” by Don DeLillo
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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026: “Sweet on the Tongue” by Roxane Gay
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Feb 15, 2020 |
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025: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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024: “To the Measures Fall” by Richard Powers
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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023: “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
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Jan 01, 2020 |
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022: “Black-Eyed Women” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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021: “Goodbye and Good Luck” by Grace Paley
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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020: “Gender Studies” by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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019: “Lady Tigers” by Nick White
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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018: “The Babysitter” by Robert Coover
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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017: “Closer” by Greg Egan
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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016: “Girls, At Play” by Celeste Ng
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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015: “Only Tourists Remember the Alamo” by Alicia D. Ortega
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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014: “Victory Lap” by George Saunders
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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013: “How to Become a Writer” by Lorrie Moore
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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012: “When They Came to Us” by Debbie Urbanski
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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011: “Voices” by Alice Munro
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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010: “Now We Are Five” by David Sedaris
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Jun 15, 2019 |
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009: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver
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Jun 01, 2019 |
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008: “The Boy from Lam Kien” by Miranda July
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May 15, 2019 |
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007: “The Flood” by Megan Baxter
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May 01, 2019 |
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006: “Now I Make My Own Bread” by Elle Wignall
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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005: “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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004: “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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003: “The Lie” by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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002: “The Balloon” by Donald Barthelme
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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001: “The Midnight Zone” by Lauren Groff
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Feb 01, 2019 |