Great new(ish) stories from around the Web. Forget work for a minute and read a story. It’s good for you.
– This is glacier country and sometimes stupid people stumble onto valuable shit. Skulls and arrowheads, crude tools, leg bones dragged from god knows where. My father shoves a couple bills across the counter and tells them to bring in anything else they find. When they leave, he calls the natural history museum in Boise. In a couple of hours, a man in a blue car drives down and spreads hundred dollar bills on the counter like a Japanese fan. — John Jodzio in decomP
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You Won't See It Coming
Meathooks. We all throw them from time to time. In terms of short stories, Ray Carver delivered many mighty blows. Regardless, in recent times a series of blows have landed on the chin of Gordon Lish — the notorious editor of Carver’s stories — and his particularly affecting oomph: Stephen King judges one for the writer in the New York Times. To all you time-continuum spaceballs out there, we’re almost at the end of a decade. And you know what that means: Book Covers. Turn your steam-resistant goggles toward some of the best. Alice Munro dazzles with another collection of stories, as well as her refusal to go gently into any sort of night. Camus’ son and Sarkozy get earthy and dig up the ghost of one of France’s patron saints, the mystery man Joe Sacco keeps his messy stories nice and clean, and Mary Beard weighs in on the importance of Classics. Elsewhere, Gladwell and Pinker go toe to toe, and The Poetry Foundation finds merit in Project Runway, which, to our mind, constitutes a meathook of TKO proportions. — Kevin Murphy
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Monday's Body of Work,
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