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Rivka Galchen on American Innovations: Stories
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2014
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Synopsis
The characters in Rivka Galchen’s new collection, American Innovations, are as surprised and confused by time travel, mysterious growths, and encounters with the dead as they are by being unemployed, getting divorced, and falling in love. In “Once an Empire,” which was published in the February 2010 issue of Harper’s Magazine, a woman arrives home to find her […]
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Emotional Weight
2.6 / 5
Reflective
Narrative Pacing
2.6 / 5
Deliberate
Literary Style
3.6 / 5
Contemporary Literary
Speculative / Reality
4.8 / 5
Speculative / Fabulist
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Harper's Magazine
Harper's Fiction · Jun 23, 2014
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