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Fiction


08.29.11: Danielle Dutton

An Excerpt from S P R A W L
On Places, a passage from Danielle Dutton's comic novel S P R A W L, which pieces together a theory of the American suburb.
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08.25.11: Ryan Harty

Sarah at the Palace
On Places, a short story by Ryan Harty set in an apartment complex half a mile from the Las Vegas strip.
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08.22.11: Barry Lopez

Dixon Marsh
On Places, a short story by Barry Lopez set in the Petersen Mountains on the Nevada-California border.
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08.18.11: Ashleigh Pedersen

Small and Heavy World
On Places, a short story by Ashleigh Pedersen set in a fantastical landscape among the trees during a flood in the Deep South.
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08.15.11: Anthony Doerr

Village 113
On Places, a short story by Anthony Doerr set in a Chinese village soon to be drowned by the Three Gorges Dam.
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08.11.11: Emily Mitchell

States
On Places, fabulist Emily Mitchell conjures up an alternate history of the United States.
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08.08.11: Urban Waite

No One Heard a Thing the Night the Chicken Died
On Places, a short story by Urban Waite set on a family farm adjacent to a new golf course in Long Beach, California.
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02.04.10: Timothy Mennel

Working for the People
Completing his doctorate in geography, Timothy Mennel produced not a typical dissertation but Everything Must Go: A Novel of Robert Moses's New York. On Places, read an excerpt, in which Moses and Frank Lloyd Wright take a drive through Harlem and the Bronx.
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