The Library
Stories that don’t apologize — curated fiction and community submissions.
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Novels of New York
Five novels in which New York is not the setting but a character. A Library reading list for the city…
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The Short Story Collection
A whole world delivered in twenty pages. On the short story collection and the particular pleasure of finishing something tonight.
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The Reread
A book does not change, but the reader does. On the reread and why the second time through is a…
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Novels Told in Letters
Five epistolary novels — books built entirely from letters, and better for it. A Library reading list.
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Marginalia
To write in a book is to talk back to it. On marginalia and the quiet conversation in the margins.
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Reading in Bed
The last hour before sleep belongs to a book or it belongs to a screen. On reading in bed and…
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Books About Slow Love
Five novels that understand love is mostly waiting, noticing, and time. A Library reading list for the patient reader.
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The Cab
They had been colleagues for two years before anything happened. He thought she was difficult. She thought he was inflexible.…
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In Transit
The hotel bar attracted people in transit — not locals, not tourists, but people between one thing and the next.…
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The Note
She found the note on a Monday morning, slipped under her apartment door sometime in the night. No envelope. Just…