A couple of days ago, I mentioned that Robin Black was in this month’s One Story (which, as you know, is the greatest magazine being published today, and I say that knowing full-well that I am, as a result, admitting that the little magazine I publish, Inch, is not the greatest magazine being published today, though I am certain we are still in the top seven).  It looks like I wasn’t the only one to take notice– Robin gets a shout-out from Esquire this month for her story.

I hadn’t looked at Esquire in… well, maybe ever… but finding that link also led me to Esquire’s napkin fiction, in which authors send contributions on a napkin.  (Good stuff, but hardly a match for Michael McFee’s The Napkin Manuscripts.)  That, in turn, to this beautiful piece on last lines by another writer whose name crops up in this space every so often: Sarah Manguso.  Read.  Perhaps you will be left breathless.