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By William FaulknerDean Faulkner Wells, who has put down here William Faulkner’s ghost story “The Werewolf as he told it to her and her cousin Jill (Mr. Bill’s daughter) and her cousin Vicki and the other children of Oxford, is Mr. Bill’s niece. She was named after her father Dean, who was Mr. Bill’s youngest and favorite brother. Ten years separated the two brothers, but they were very close and enjoyed one another’s company in many moods and moments. Dean Swift Faulkner was killed in an airplane crash when he …
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Kyra Wilder on “John Wick Is So Tired”
By Kyra Wilder“We’re starting with a hatchet thrown at someone’s face—we don’t need the additional histrionics of white space.”
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John Wick Is So Tired
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By Elaine Feeney“I swam fast toward the rocks—the sting of a jellyfish couldn’t be worse than listening to him go on about his mother.”
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from “36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem”
By Nam Le“And Cathay was not China. / And Vietnam was not China / Nor made in China—but close enough.”
