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Mark Slouka

Mark Slouka’s short fiction has featured in Best American Short Stories and has been awarded a National Magazine Award for Fiction. He is a Contributing Editor at Harper’s, and the author of The Woodcarver’s Tale and God’s Fool (Knopf and Picador). He is Professor of English Literature at the University of Chicago.

Publications

American Fiction

The Visible World

Mark Slouka

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Fiction

Brewster

Mark Slouka

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Mark Slouka on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Labyrinth of the Heart

Mark Slouka

‘Every marriage is forged differently; some crack at a touch, others endure beyond belief, still others are tempered by events and time.’

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Then

Mark Slouka

‘It was in January, I think. That weekend, more than any other, the thought of her leaving seemed impossible.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

The Little Museum of Memory

Mark Slouka

‘Maybe they're worried that their absence will be noticed. Maybe they just want to come home.’