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FEB 2012

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Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel

by Mario Benedetti

Fiction

I don’t see my children very often. Especially Jaime. It’s interesting, because it’s Jaime in particular who I would especially like to see more often. Of the three of them, he’s the only one with a sense of humor.

The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park

by Holly Tavel

Fiction

The hospital grounds end where Fritz Bemelmans Park begins. At the south entrance to Fritz Bemelmans Park there once stood, shining and absolute, a bronze statue of Fritz Bemelmans, gentleman, with a scroll, a musket, a sheaf of wheat, and a mysterious bundle.

Tragic Strip

by T. Motley

Fiction

T. Motley is a comic strip illustrator and "cartooniologist."

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A Scrupulous Fidelity,
On Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser

by Douglas Glover

Fiction

This essay is from Attack of the Copula Spiders and Other Essays on Writing published by Biblioasis. Out in March.

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On the Furtiveness of Kurtz

by Jeremy M. Davies

Fiction

It has been much remarked upon. By those who have observed him. He’s sitting crouched, as though expecting a blow.

 

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