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Victor Lodato

Victor Lodato is playwright and author of two novels: Mathilda Savitch, which won the PEN USA Award for Fiction, and Edgar and Lucy. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times and The Best American Short Stories. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

A Mother’s Dilemma

Victor Lodato

‘I can hear the girl scratching a pencil inside a notebook. I don’t like it. I’ve asked her not to write about me.’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Chanel Nº 5

Victor Lodato

‘The liquid tingled, a subtle electrification, as the scent changed, bloomed, became an extension of the boy himself.’

Fiction | Issue 136 padlock
Fiction | Issue 136 padlock

The Tenant

Victor Lodato

‘She’d gotten so used to her loneliness, she didn’t want to fall from it now.’

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