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The Other Woman

Online Fiction Interview: Kim Addonizio

by Nate Brown | May 6, 2014

Online Fiction Interview: Kim Addonizio

Earlier this month, we brought you Kim Addonizio's "The Other Woman," a piece that depicts three people in a  tight, tense orbit. Addonizio is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer, and we were curious to ask her about working across so many different forms, and about what leads her to write in one over another. Over the course of our back-and-forth, a few things became clear:  the assumptions we bring to fiction—even pieces we think we've read carefully and several times—don't always match the … [Read more...] about Online Fiction Interview: Kim Addonizio

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The Other Woman

by Kim Addonizio | May 1, 2014

The Other Woman

It would end in disaster, everyone said, and everyone was right, but everyone was on the outside of the situation and therefore did not know everything. She was on the inside, living with a man and in love with another woman, loving the man but not being sure anymore she should live with him, loving the extravagant Italian meals he cooked and the way he stood frowning when he painted in the corner of their living room that served as his studio, loving his longish black hair on the nape of his … [Read more...] about The Other Woman

Filed Under: WEB EXCLUSIVES Tagged With: Kim Addonizio, Relationships, The Other Woman, Web Exclusives

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Issue 81

Guest-edited by Fernando A. Flores, featuring new stories by Yvette DeChavez, Julián Delgado Lopera, Carribean Fragoza, Alejandro Heredia, Carmen Maria Machado, Ruben Reyes Jr., and Gerardo Sámano Córdova.

You can preview the issue here.

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Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

By ASF Editors

“Memories are a nuisance,” Peter wrote to one of our writers after reading his short story, “but nonetheless they seem to make us who we are, as this story confirms.” This year’s submissions told many stories burdened with memory, but just as many stared bravely into the face of hope, satirized the state of politics, speculated on the future of the world, or else built entirely new worlds to inhabit. In short, the stories written on the inside reflected the stories we wrote this year on the outside. Stories of human toil and dreams and everything in between.
 

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