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You Don't Have to Live Like This

Editorial Outtakes: Benjamin Markovits

by Benjamin Markovits | September 23, 2015

Editorial Outtakes: Benjamin Markovits

Today, we launch Editorial Outtakes, a new series here at ASF Online where we'll feature excerpts from recently published novels and story collections that you won't find in the finished books because, prior to publication, they were cut. The reasons for the cuts will vary, of course, but in the case of Benjamin Markovits, who is the brother of our co-editor Rebecca Markovits and the author of our debut installment of Editorial Outtakes, they were the result of finding that the heart of his most … [Read more...] about Editorial Outtakes: Benjamin Markovits

Filed Under: EDITORIAL OUTTAKES, NOTEBOOK Tagged With: Benjamin Markovits, Contemporary Novels, Detroit, Editorial Outtakes, You Don't Have to Live Like This

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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.

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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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