We believe students and readers everywhere deserve a great and free modern library, inside of which they can get deliriously, entertainingly, profoundly lost. And found.
Stories
Narrative Outloud
She remembers that golden ocean, the promise of a whole new land.
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You can go from one town square
to another and never fall in love.
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The author reads her story, a finalist in the Winter 2013 Story Contest.
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I returned to Vietnam with a tape recorder to collect ca dao.
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You could not look at Leila for long, and yet you longed to look at her.
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She did something few girls had ever done with him. She laughed.
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Sonja slapped her sister. How could she shed tears for the past?
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Do the work. Every day. Take a step back and see if you love it.
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His beginnings, his genesis as a writer, and the fateful connections between life and art.
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An owl, as large and incongruous in the night sky as a flying man.
Narrative Outloud
The moths were the things that invaded, like a bad man’s touch.
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Ann Beattie in a wonderful reading of her story “Find and Replace."
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He was just a bully, uncivilized, out of control, and wanting to lash out.
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Here, Min Jin reads from her novel at Narrative Night, New York City.
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Tobias Wolff reading two stories aloud: "Say Yes" and "Her Dog."
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He could not stop marveling at the velvet quality of
her skin.
her skin.
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Sam was like family. He was the angel of my writing life in every word.
Narrative Outloud
Jayne Anne Phillips
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Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.
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Lynn Freed reads from her collection, The Curse of the Appropriate Man.
Story of the Week
It is a city of sea, sun, boulevards, strolling beauties, life-altering food.
Narrative Outloud
Iherde ich holde grete tale, an owle and one niyhtingale.
Narrative Outloud
Let us stifle under mud and affirm it is fitting and delicious to lose everything.