Readings

From a list of frequently asked questions on the website for After the Rapture Pet Care. Who are these Pet Caretakers and how do I know they’ll take good care…

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From Sojourn, which was published last month by New York Review Books. The flat was new to me. I’d moved into it the day before yesterday in a hurry. It…

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From The Poems, which will be published next month by Seagull Books. This is the first time the poem has appeared in English. Translated from the German. All you have…

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From an interview with Becky Currie, a Republican member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, conducted by Anna Wolfe for Mississippi Today. Currie wrote the Mississippi Gestational Age Act, which…

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From writings left behind by visitors to the Oakland Public Library. Dear Librarian: Those three kids over there are making too much noise and I can’t read and my friend…

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From a lawsuit filed against American Airlines by a passenger, Michael Lowe, earlier this year. On May 13, the police began investigating the burglary of a duty-free store in Dallas…

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From comments made by Russian chess officials in July, following an incident at the Moscow Open in which a chess-playing robot broke the finger of its seven-year-old competitor. Translated from…

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From audio recordings played by two trash cans in Malmö, Sweden, when waste is deposited. Mmm, more Mmm, a bit more to the left next time Ooh, yeah, right there…

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From Google’s style guide for developers. passive voice: Passive can be okay in the following instances: If your readers don’t need to know who’s responsible for the action. please: Using…

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From tweets by the Kenyan journalist posted in April and May, describing events in Western countries. Evidence mounts of war crimes by fighters loyal to Russian Slav warlord Vladimir Putin,…

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From Some of Them Will Carry Me, a collection of short stories, which will be published next month by Dorothy, a publishing project. When my mother dies, which will be…

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From an essay that originally appeared in Jornal do Brasil in 1967 and is included in Too Much of Life, which will be published this month by New Directions. Translated…

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From The Tablet of Destinies, which was published in July by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the Italian. Inanna had desired to leave the Great Above and go down…

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From interviews conducted with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated laborers by employees of the American Civil Liberties Union and professors and students at the University of Chicago Law School. field labor…

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From “Club Chair,” an essay in the collection Lost Objects, which was published in July by Hat & Beard Press. In 1957, my family was at the historical apex of…

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From Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, a novel, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. We were eighteen the summer of the drought. The cow’s milk…

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From passages in A History of Present Illness, which was published last month by Little, Brown. Churches are quiet, true enough. Old and cold and safe. There was one hidden…

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From comments made by Eric Adams since he was elected mayor of New York City last year. The most important city on the globe has become a laughingstock We’re so…

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From Bloom & Other Poems, which was published in July by New Directions. Translated from the Chinese. inside stone is stone and the memory of plate tectonics inside brick is…

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From Campfires of the Dead and the Living, a short story collection, which will be published next month by 11:11 Press. “Is this your good shirt with the frayed collar…

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From an interview with Sam Kriss conducted by Justin E. H. Smith for The Point’s What Is X? podcast, which was released in May. Flat-earthers are conspiracy theorists who believe…

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From the essay “Bela’s Pilgrim,” which was published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of Jewish Currents. Shayevich left Azerbaijan in the Nineties to seek asylum in the United States. As…

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From Kick the Latch, which will be published next month by New Directions. Before her husband died and her house burned down, Bicycle Jenny worked at Crocker’s, the slaughtering plant.…

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From promotional materials for Atomik Vodka. The Chernobyl Spirit Company is a social enterprise aiming to produce high-quality artisan spirits (“moonshine”) from land in the areas of Ukraine abandoned after…

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From a previously unpublished cartoon by Thomas Nast, an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly in the late nineteenth century. The sketch, completed in 1870, depicts Nast drawing on a woodblock while…

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From alleged behaviors for which politicians in the United Kingdom have resigned or been reprimanded since 1963. Being late for a meeting Protesting the expansion of an airport Leaking confidential…

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From his debut poetry collection, Late Life, which will be published this month by Silverfish Review Press. I would touch you tenderly And then touch myself tenderly As I wished…

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From remarks delivered at the PEN America Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers, which was held in May at the United Nations. ayad akhtar: The gravity of this moment is…

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