The Fiction Issue 2008
Copenhagen’s Big, Fat Secret
The origins of Copenhagen's most popular mall, Fisketorvet, is a dirty secret that everybody needs to know.
'The Bridgetender,' by Joy Williams
A short story by Joy Williams that will appear in The Visiting Privilege, which will be published by Knopf in September.
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Four Limericks by Anthony Madrid
There was a mortician from Havre, who successfully washed a cadaver...
A Short Story About Memories and Long Drives into the Desert
'The Love Trip,' by Brian Booker
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A Short, 100 Percent Fictitious Story About Toilets, Fatherhood, and Karl Ove Knausgaard
'My Soda, Part 1,' by Allen Pearl
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Cohen for a Spritz
Cohen is promoting his fourth novel, second-drafting his fifth, and sitting on some five books of collected short stories and nonfiction, and he's 34. Yeesh is right.
Two Short Stories About Love, Poetry, and Infidelity
An excerpt from ‘Mirages of the Mind,’ by Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi.
A Short Story About Costumes, Sex, and Lying to Businessmen
'The Surrogate,' by Ottessa Moshfegh