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Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Lynne Sharon Schwartz ’s eight novels include Leaving Brooklyn, Disturbances in the Field, and Two-Part Inventions. She has also published translations from Italian and collections of stories and poetry.

The Man Behind the Counter

The Man Behind the Counter 

A neighborhood grocer, inscrutable and gruff, lingers mysteriously in my memory

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz | Monday, March 04, 2019

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Writing the Unimaginable

by Amitav Ghosh

Fires, hurricanes, windstorms, and more—as a changing climate wreaks havoc on the U.S., with each coming year slated to be worse than the last, we’re revisiting Amitav Ghosh’s essay from our Autumn 2016 issue. Ghosh was caught in a deadly cyclone in 1978 in New Delhi, leading him to examine how fiction writers should incorporate the devastating effects of climate change into their work. “We have entered a time in human history,” he writes, “when the wild has become the norm.”

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