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The Penguin Anthology of the International Short Story

Rabih Alameddine and John Freeman (eds.)

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Let’s start working on “The Good Denis,” by Marie NDiaye (translated from the French by Jordan Stump), which appears in the anthology we’ve been working from, The Penguin Anthology of the International Short Story, assembled by Rabih Alemeddine and John Freeman.

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