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By request, the vault brings you a story by Etgar Keret, from issue 30. We’ve featured this issue quite a few times on the blog. With work from Stuart Dybek, Jim Shepard, Ron Carlson, Justin Torres, Charlie Smith, Jillian Weise and Anthony Doerr (just to name a few) can you blame us? Healthy Start by [...]

I thought the hippies would set me free. I was kind of right!

“And now we are five sisters bent over a miniature world, all older than Jane Austen when she died at 41,
pretending to wear gloves and adore dances,trim hats, write chatty letters and play the pianoforte,
hoping to fill our dance cards, get invited for tea…”

In honor of the protest, which was especially relevant this year, we bring you this sharp and powerful poem by the Chinese poet Bei Ling.

“I put a magnet over your face on the picture of us on my fridge.”

“There was a woman in the neighborhood known as the Lady Who Beats Her Kids.”

There have been a lot of birthdays around here recently. In honor of cozy parties, birthday pie, and our lovely Scorpios (who all have great hair) we bring you Jane Avrich’s piece from issue 33. Happy Birthday! Your Horoscope by Blakely and Jorg Aries—A harsh wind blows on the ram this year and heavy wool [...]

“It’s not easy being Robo.”

“At the pinprick mouths…”

“You want some popcorn?”

“City sunlight, I say, how can you beat it”

“As an eavesdropper, I was helplessly voracious about whispered details.”

“The years of obsession were taking their toll…”

“The mind loves to play to console itself….”

On the ridge above, the elephant fixed them with a direct stare

As you’ve no doubt deduced by now (fingers crossed), we here at The Open Bar have finally gotten our act together and have been providing you with a series of daily distractions from your work, partners, children, and aging parents. As part of our continuing commitment to this heroic endeavor, we will be digging through [...]

Since 1958, Maurice Pons has lived in Normandy’s Eure department at the Moulin d’Andé.