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Late in the winter came one day
When there was a whiff on the wind,
a suspicion, a cry not to be heard

See the trees lean to the wind’s way of learning.
See the dirt of the hills shape to the water’s way of learning.
See the lift of it go the way the biggest
wind and the strongest water want it.

Lysley Tenorio, Laura van den Berg, and Caitlin Horrocks are a few of the standouts in the latest Best New American Voices and PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies.

Walmart vs Amazon, B&N’s Nook, a Rothian tour of Newark, Lethem reads the whole of his new novel, and more.

It’s the now-standard HuffPo methodology: solicit unpaid writers to pad out their meager content, strip-mined from tabloids and gossip sites.