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Daniel Nadler
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The excerpts above are from Daniel Nadler’s longer project The Lacunae; other selections from that work are forthcoming in Lana Turner and Boston Review. Nadler is the CEO of Kensho, a Google Ventures-backed technology company; the director of research for financial technology at Stanford University’s Global Projects Center; a PhD Candidate at Harvard University; a visiting scholar at the United States Federal Reserve; and the financial technology columnist for Institutional Investor. His research and work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and CNN.

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Vol. 82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
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May 8, 2024
Why my mother don’t like me?
     I ask Ansin, my grandmother. I say, How it is my mother never did like me?
     She steups. Kiss she teeth. And smooth-out that news she was reading in. Raise it up again to give it a little flip. At the top. And you could feel the vexness in that flip too.
     I say, Is cause I ent got no father?
May 1, 2024
“You have fifteen minutes,” the cashier says. Repeats it, runs your card, matter-of-factly smiling like Iowa girls do. Brenda smiled that smile too—pleasant, courteous. No faking, no strain.
     “Any questions?” she asks.
     You poke a carousel rack of baseball caps in front of her register. It creaks a clockwise inch. Stiff-billed, nylon, mesh. Lots of American flags. This one with the cabin patch, stitched with “Home Sweet Home.” It’s a deep bluish plum, a color Brenda likes.
 
April 24, 2024
The July morning was alive with a sound in the air, strange communications, the acoustics of the big yard amplifying each rustle, each wave. Odd creatures glittering on the ground. Herds spread lavishly, a wilderness of transparent wings, bug eyes, a mosaic of glassy fragments. Glinting. They covered the grass, the sidewalk, covered the branches of the trees.