At Length

literature that looks good on a laptop

Prose

  • Jobs for Philosophers

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    A touching and complicated story of a college professor and the lovers, children, and friends who capture her heart. By Michelle Herman, author of the novel Dog.

  • Salvage

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    A memoir of childhood summers spent in small-town Missouri, in a grandfather’s mysterious salvage yard — and of the surprising ways memory itself is an ongoing reclamation project. By Andrew Wingfield.

  • Dying Makes You Stronger

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    Magoo and Audrey work together at the Hawaii Center for Tourism and Culture. When Magoo sets himself on fire, his death is just his first big surprise. By Lance Uyeda.

  • Media Vuelta

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    A Mexican musician travels to America to look for the wife he lost years ago. From Michael Jayme-Becerra, author of the short story collection Every Night Is Ladies’ Night.

  • Small Mercies

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    When Peter’s wife killed herself, he could only be grateful that she’d spared his son. A novella from Tim Winton, the Booker Prize–nominated author of Dirt Music.

  • Stray

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    The best-paid court reporter in Boise, Idaho, moves to San Francisco and brings home an unexpected stray—a toddler. By Melissa Yancy.