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Fiber Optics, Holy Places

By Amie Barrodale,

By Amie Barrodale, from “Night Report.” The story appears in You Are Having a Good Time, a collection of Barrodale’s fiction that will be published next month by Farrar, Straus…

Growing Up

By Joshua Cohen, Christine Smallwood, Karen Russell, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Amie Barrodale, Suketu Mehta, Wells Tower,

Five coming-of-age stories

My Mother’s Apartment

By Amie Barrodale,

I took a class in ad writing at Pratt Institute when I was twenty-four. I lasted one day. One of my classmates came in on the first day with storyboards…

Vara, A Blessing

By Amie Barrodale, on April 21, 2014

Khyentse Norbu’s love poem to Old India

Dostoevsky’s Wagers

By Amie Barrodale, on February 5, 2014

Gambling for car parts in Osceola, Iowa

Wong Kar-wai’s Subtle Battles

By Amie Barrodale, on August 28, 2013

How the director of The Grandmaster captures the essence of the fight

The Master’s Hold

By Amie Barrodale, on February 18, 2013

On the attractions and sway of a master