From The Rumpus, a new short (short) story by George Saunders, excerpted from Life is Short – Art is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity, with an introduction by David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman.
“Adams”
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Breaking the English Ceiling
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Adams is not a new short story. It was in the 8/9/04 New Yorker.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/09/adams