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Mario Andrea Rigoni
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Mario Andrea Rigoni is a full professor of Italian Literature at the University of Padua. He writes regularly for the Corriere della Sera and the Nouvelle Revue Française. He is the author of two books of aphorisms (Variazioni sull’Impossibile (Milano, Rizzoli, 1993) and Elogio dell’America (Roma, Liberal, 2003) and has just published a collection of short stories entitled Dall’altra parte (Torino, Aragno); “Too Late” is one of these stories.

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Vol. 83
Revenants, The Ghost Issue
Fall 2024
Coedited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow

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December 4, 2024
I was educated in an old Sisters of Mercy convent school, where rumors of ghost nuns were ten a penny and were never especially convincing. However, when I was fourteen, I was in a math class and the teacher walked past me to the back of the room—I heard the movement of her long skirts and felt the displacement of air. A moment later, I put up my hand and looked behind me for help, but the teacher was still sitting ahead of me at her desk in front of the class.
November 27, 2024
Rae Armantrout   EXPRESSION   Give me your spurt   of verbs, [...]
November 20, 2024
As a big surprise for her birthday, I gave in and bought the dog she’d been wanting for a long time. A frisky little caramel-colored dachshund she immediately named Fredo after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, her favorite movie. I thought it an odd name but it was her choice and her dog.