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The Essence of Another: On the Convention of Eliding Names in Fiction
The literary device of eliding proper names of course predates Clarice Lispector (“Interrupted Story” was originally published in 1942).
An interview with Christopher X. Shade, author of “The Good Mother of Marseille”
I think a lot about snow globes. We did not have snow globes in small town Alabama where I was raised. I’m fascinated by them probably because they were not in my childhood. The contained experience of a snow globe, when you pick it up and shake it…
Mei’s Crow
The room is as dark as a crow.
A bright light appears, bathing a group of figures. They pose along a bench, their gazes fixed into empty space.
The Epiphany 10: An Interview with Pingmei Lan
Pingmei Lan’s short story, “Cicadas and the Dead Chairman,” which appeared in Epiphany’s Fall/Winter 2018 issue, has been named a winner of the prestigious PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize.
The opening to Pingmei Lan’s “Cicadas and the Dead Chairman”
That summer when Chairman Mao died I saw a funeral for the first time, a national one. It had gone on for weeks. Everywhere I turned people were wearing black armbands and making white paper flowers.
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