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Window Treatments

Ottessa Moshfegh -

The girl had an unusual talent. She could make noises with her mouth, like a door creaking open and slamming shut, or like an...

Walking the Moons

Jonathan Lethem -

Jonathan Lethem's new novel, Dissident Gardens, is available now. "Walking the Moons" appeared on Joyland during its first year. “Look,” says the mother of The...

Ms. Universe

Rebecca Rosenblum -

Baton went up into the blue sky, whipping around so fast it seemed to bend. Baton came down, the spin slowing just before seven...

Transcript: Appeal of the Sentence

Spencer Gordon -

A version of this story also appears in Cosmo, available now from Coach House Books. ...the sentence itself is a man-made object, not the one...

DaveWare

Mack Gelber -

I bought a 3D printer the other day. I’d been reading about them in magazines over the past year or so, watched videos of...

War of Attrition

Carleigh Baker -

My marriage is ending and it's my fault. In the other room, Andrew is snoring. I’m on the couch. Here is the buttery weight...

Tiger’s Got Teeth

Ethel Rohan -

Ethel Rohan's new collection of fiction, Goodnight Nobody, is now available for preorder from Queen's Ferry Press. Here's a repost of Rohan's 2011 Joyland...

The Farmers Market

David Schuman -

Home The family resides in what was once a famous crack house. Their neighborhood, at the edge of a city park, has been revitalized. The...

Entropy

Tamar Halpern -

Excerpted from the in-progress book RAD: a twisted memoir of a fierce teenage girl in 1982. Halpern’s latest film, with co-director Chris Quilty, is...

Big Lunch

Julie Mannell -

Minutes after the cathedral tour, I was with this boy at Hesburger on Vilnius Street. Just two casual acquaintances on vacation, as they say....