Yiyun Li has selected "World Without End" by
@pmpatters
as this year's PHR Editor's Prize Winner in Fiction!
She also chose "Kun" by
@stars_su
and "Get Ready" by Astha Gupta as Finalists. Li wrote that she enjoyed all three stories tremendously.
I am very excited to have a short story in
@CatapultStory
, about web forums and inexplicable full-body rashes. Thank you so much to
@ssrosecw
for the excellent edits.
"I try not to think of the blisters, try to be just a body in the world, moving forward among the stalls and trees, beneath the cowhide sky." New short fiction from
@thereal_ckj
:
FATBOY
by Camille Jacobson
@thereal_ckj
"I turn away slowly, reluctantly follow my dad as he starts wandering down the graying, carpeted aisles. I am not in the habit of asking for things."
someone in my building just called in a noise complaint for me and 2 cops showed up at my door— I was making a photo album and watching shark tank in my pajamas.
I hate london it has rained every single day, all day, for 10 days straight and every restaurant closes at 8 and every bar closes at 11 and everything is 1 hr away
“Someone ushers me toward the front and soon enough I’m holding a miniature cheeseburger, a tiny tiramisu, and a free negroni.” Read
@thereal_ckj
on opening night of White Noise for this week's Review's Review, online now.
For
@clereviewbooks
I wrote about Ottessa Moshfegh and her forthcoming novel, out by
@penguinpress
this summer. Reading her work is like watching someone smile through a mouth full of blood.
This week’s staff picks include the jazz guitarist Bill Frisell’s latest flirtation with Americana, Patti Smith’s new memoir, and a scathing consideration of John Updike by
@TriciaLockwood
.
Why would your mother do an expensive kitchen remodel and then quit cooking altogether? Camille Jacobson has some insights and answers in"Two Kitchens," latest in our BLAST series of exclusively online prose.
@Missouri_Review
@thereal_ckj
…/
eating lunch at pret like it’s 2016 & I accidentally showed up an hour early to my marketing internship so I have to sit somewhere and waste time to not seem insane
This week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ considers the “millennial novel,” revisits an underappreciated Ayelet Waldman book, and grapples with Mona Awad’s wild ‘Bunny.’