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by Caitlin D., May 22, 2014 4:07 PM
Amy Hempel writes all her stories in her head before she touches the page, and reading her recite her work is somewhere in between eavesdropping on a woman talking to her dog and hearing an agnostic pray. There's an intimacy in watching her characters know themselves, often through watching others who do not, and there's a power in her epiphanies, which are often found in the everyday, but resound in uncommon ways off the page. And all of this is hung on the bones of her bright, wicked humor — you'll feel lucky to be invited to watch.
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