Stories of the Week: 2015–2016

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  He got people on the conveyor belt that carried them up to heaven.

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  “A book is an ax,” Franz Kafka once said, “for the frozen sea within.”

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  It had taken Thursdale seven years to form this fine talent.

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  “O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!”

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  There is hardly a rich man in the world who has not such a friend.

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  At the copier, her back to him, running off copies, was Penny Ayler.

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  My father would have ended my clandestine career on the spot.

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Story of the Week

• Henry AdamsThe Aphorisms of Henry Adams
• Sherwood AndersonA Storyteller’s Story
• John BalabanJohn Barth, Undergraduate Academic Adviser
• Rick BassLease Hound
• Elizabeth BowenDaffodils
• Patrick M. ButlerThe Clock of Paradise
• Brian CastleberryIt Is Better to Be Remembered
• Marc and Bella ChagallThe First Meeting
• Joseph ConradYouth
• David CorbettBabylon Sister
• Guy de MaupassantA New Year’s Gift
• T. S. EliotTradition and the Individual Talent
• Cally FiedorekPeople (Interlude)
• Leo GoodyearFeeding the Lions
• Donald HallLife Work
• Lorien HouseAlphabet City, 1985
• Leslie JonesMilitary Ball
• Franz KafkaA Country Doctor
• Irene KeliherWhen You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing
• Robert KinerkReef Point
• W. Somerset MaughamRomance of the Arts
• Toni MehlerFriends
• Shaily MenonBefriended
• A. A. MilneAn Ideal Author
• Josip NovakovichWino
• Josip NovakovichA Wanderer
• Joyce Carol OatesLiterature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature
• Cynthia OzickW. H. Auden at the 92nd Street Y
• Tracy O’NeillAs Though Death
  Were a Bouquet
• Hannah PittardListen to Me
• Elizabeth de la PortillaWhippoorwill
• Adam O’Fallon PriceVogel’s Wife
• Casey Gentry QuinnBoy Girl
• Philip RothMaestro
• Jack SchiffAt Lee
• Sandra ScofieldThe Sinkhole
• Sir Walter ScottThe Jewess and the Templar
• James SilbersteinSexting
• Lee SmithPietà
• Sir Richard SteeleOf Companions and Flatterers
• Mary TaugherWhere Are We Going?
• Geeta TewariThe Indianness
• Leo TolstoyA Sleigh Ride
• Melanie VietsThe Pattern of the Scatter
• Heinrich von KleistMichael Kohlhaas
• Edith WhartonThe Dilettante
• Juliet WilliamsMe, Jodie Lynn Malone
• Douglas WoodArrangement
• Virginia WoolfStreet Haunting: A London Adventure
• Diana XinLast Night with the Brothers K