Theodore McCombs @theodoremccombs.bsky.social · Nov 23 It's impossible to narrow this topic to a handful of stories, but I want us to look closely together at Mavis Gallant and Elizabeth McCracken's ghost stories "From the Fifteenth District" and "Something Amazing" (two favorites), and magical realism in Gabo's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."
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And, if we have time, we'll do paragraph-level read of the opening to Chekhov's novella "The Black Monk" and the bravura reality-warping passage from Carmen Maria Machado's "Mothers." (WandaVision should be writing her checks IMO)