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May 15, 2013

Bettering Myself

by Ottessa Moshfegh

Recommended by The Paris Review

May 8, 2013

These Are the Fables

by Amelia Gray

Recommended by CLMP

May 1, 2013

A Questionable Shape

Excerpted from the novel by Bennett Sims

Recommended by Two Dollar Radio

March 24, 2013

Firewood

by J. Robert Lennon

Recommended by Electric Literature

March 17, 2013

A Once-Perfect Day for Bananfish

by Mieko Kawakami

Recommended by Monkey Business

March 10, 2013

Missing Persons

by Norman Lock

Recommended by Slice Literary

March 3, 2013

Pu-239

by Ken Kalfus

Recommended by Fiona Maazel

March 27, 2013

Todd

by Etgar Keret

Recommended by Electric Literature

March 20, 2013

The Sub-Leaser

by Adrian Van Young

Recommended by Black Lawrence Press

March 13, 2013

Yours

by Mary Robison

Recommended by Ben Greenman

March 6, 2013

How to Shake the Other Man

by Derek Palacio

Recommended by Nouvella

February 27, 2013

Malice and Desperation in the Grand Canyon

From The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

by Kristopher Jansma

Recommended by Electric Literature

February 20, 2013

The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis

by Karen Russell

Recommended by Conjunctions

February 13, 2013

Girltown

by Kate Wheeler

Recommended by Stephen O’Connor

February 6, 2013

Any Deadly Thing

by Roy Kesey

Recommended by Dzanc Books

January 30, 2013

Tributaries

by Ramona Ausubel

Recommended by Electric Literature

January 23, 2013

Following Slowly

by A.R. Rea

Recommended by Joshua Ferris

January 16, 2013

Travels in Central America

Excerpted from the novella

by Clancy Martin

Recommended by The Milan Review

January 9, 2013

A Talking Cure

by Justin Taylor

Recommended by The Coffin Factory

January 2, 2013

Our Education

by Lincoln Michel

Recommended by Electric Literature

December 26, 2012

The Fixed Idea

by April Bernard

Recommended by Little Star

December 19, 2012

Something to Remember Me By

by Saul Bellow

Recommended by Mary Gaitskill

December 12, 2012

That’s Not A Feeling

by Dan Josefson

Recommended by Soho Press

December 5, 2012

White Dialogues

by Bennett Sims

Recommended by Electric Literature

November 28, 2012

A Good Deuce

by Jodi Angel

Recommended by Tin House

Now available as a Kindle Single

November 21, 2012

My Last Story

by Janet Frame

Recommended by Etgar Keret

November 14, 2012

Death of the President’s Dog

by Miljenko Jergovic

Translated by Daveid Williams

Recommended by Archipelago Books

November 7, 2012

Rontel

An excerpt from the novel by Sam Pink

Recommended by Electric Literature

October 31, 2012

The Cottage on the Hill

by J. Robert Lennon

Recommended by Unstuck

October 24, 2012

The Time Machine

by Dino Buzzati

Recommended by Kevin Brockmeier

October 17, 2012

In the Rain

by Steven Barthelme

from the collection Hush Hush

Recommended by Melville House

October 10, 2012

Seven Stories

From Alex Epstein’s “For My Next Illusion I Will Use Wings”

Recommended by Electric Literature

October 3, 2012

The Kill Sign

by Marvin Shackleford

Recommended by Armchair/Shotgun

September 26, 2012

The Pilgrim Hawk

Excerpted from the novel by Glenway Wescott

Recommended by Michael Cunningham

September 19, 2012

Fobbit

Excerpted from the novel by David Abrams

Recommended by Grove/Atlantic

September 12, 2012

Hello Everybody

by A.M. Homes

Recommended by Electric Literature

Now available as a Kindle Single

September 5, 2012

Trouble and the Shadowy Deathblow

by Patrick Somerville

Recommended by One Story

August 29, 2012

Glissando

by Katie Bellas

Recommended by Joshua Henkin

August 22, 2012

The Natural Way of Things

by Peter Stamm

Recommended by Other Press

August 15, 2012

Recovery

by Helen DeWitt

Recommended by Electric Literature

August 8, 2012

Birds in the Mouth

by Samanta Schweblin

Recommended by PEN America

August 1, 2012

Cathay

by Steven Millhauser

Recommended by Aimee Bender

July 25, 2012

Office Girl

Excerpted from the novel by Joe Meno

Recommended by Akashic Books

July 18, 2012

The Devil’s Treasure

By Mary Gaitskill

Recommended by Electric Literature

July 11, 2012

Interpreters of Men Get It On

By Fiona Maazel

Recommended by The Common

July 4, 2012

OIF

By Phil Klay

Recommended by Nathan Englander

June 27, 2012

Airbag

By Ted Sanders

Recommended by Graywolf Press

June 20, 2012

The Adventure of the Space Traveler

By Seth Fried

Recommended by Electric Literature

June 13, 2012

Cattle Haul

By Jesmyn Ward

Recommended by A Public Space

June 6, 2012

North of

By Marie-Helene Bertino

Recommended by Jim Shepard

May 30, 2012

Near to the Wild Heart

By Clarice Lispector

Recommended by New Directions

May 23, 2012