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Books A Good Way to Start the Day
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Pank Magazine points out that If you go over here, you can have Jhumpa Lahiri's short story "Hell-Heaven" e-mailed to you in ten installments. You can determine which days you get the installments, and at what time of day, too. Daily Lit offers a bunch of stories for free via e-mail or RSS, but you should start with "Hell-Heaven." Cienna Madrid loved Unaccustomed Earth, which is the collection of stories this one comes from:
Even Lahiri's description of a vitreous eye clump is poetic, and neatly captures the thematic sense of loss that is present in each story: "[The eye clump] did not affect his driving, or his picture-taking. And yet if felt like an invasion of the part of his body, the physical sense that was most precious: something that betrayed him and also refused to abandon him."
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