Foreword | September 01, 2006

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A friend recently asked me whether I believed that the short story was a living art or whether it had gone the way of vinyl records.  I told her that I knew a guy who listened only to vinyl.  This music lover is in fact a music fiend with a twenty-some-thousand-dollar sound system to play his old records.  It occurred to me later, though, that my friend and I were mixing up categories in the way that art pundits too often do.

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