Deborah Eisenberg

Biography

Deborah Eisenberg’s books include The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (Picador, 2010), for which she won the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her many other honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, the Rea Award for the Short Story, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and four O. Henry Awards. She teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University.

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FICTION / Fall 2018

Merge

By Deborah Eisenberg ,  Illustration by Nicole Rifkin

Thundering down, a cataract from a high plateau, raising billows of dust, manes, tails, whinnies rippling like banners, a glamorous species, captive yes, but not entirely subdued, they—oh, no, a fellow in that ridiculous getup pops up from...

Illustration by Nicole Rifkin
FICTION / Winter 2006

The Flaw in the Design

By Deborah Eisenberg

The voice is exceptional, rich and graceful. I turn my head to look at him. Intent, reflective, he traces my brows with his finger, and then my mouth, as if I were a photograph he’s come across, mysteriously labeled in his own handwriting.