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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.05 – 4/8/21

Fiction

BOOK EXCERPT: THE INSTITUTE. A POTENTIALLY PRESCIENT POLITICAL THRILLER

Written by SAM SARKISIAN Posted December 2, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Books, Fiction

In which a nonpartisan “Institute for Information Dissemination” is tasked with fact-checking us all.

Filed Under: A+E, Books, Fiction Tagged With: arts, books, excerpt

FICTION EXCERPT: A GALLERY, A HEIST, AND A DISCERNING EYE

Written by CAROL ORANGE Posted October 9, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Fiction

The lead headline jumped out: $200M Gardner Museum Art Theft 2 Men Posing as Police Tie Up Night Guards

Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: A Discerning Eye, art theft, books, excerpt, fiction, Gardner Museum

FICTION EXCERPT: THE ART OF DYING

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 4, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books, Fiction

“You guys saw the lab results. They say I took a bunch of sleeping pills. Now, why would I do that? I was so wasted my buddy Ryan practically had to carry me upstairs. You don’t need sleeping pills when you’re half in the bag.” 

Filed Under: A+E, Books, Fiction Tagged With: Art of Dying, Boston mob, Derik Cavignano, Dorchester, excerpt, excerpts, Ray Hanley

SPECIAL READ-ALONG: BOY’S ON THE HOOD

Written by DIG STAFF Posted February 20, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction, Lulz

Inspired by those utterly insane events, a few of us here at the Dig hatched the idea to write a two-man play about this greatest recent road rage ruination.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction, Lulz Tagged With: mass pike, Massachusetts, road rage

FICTION EXCERPT: ‘THE AUTOGRAPH OF STEVE INDUSTRY’

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 30, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

My grandmother is high, reading science fiction in the kitchen while a choir of drunk relatives do Johnny Most Christmas carols.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: Autograph of Steve Industry, Ben Hersey, fiction, Magic Helicopter Press

PICK YOUR BLEMISHES: AN INTERVIEW WITH OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted January 25, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Fiction

 

In a sea of perplexing novels and short stories that seek to highlight the good in bad characters, Ottessa Moshfegh‘s work rises above it all with murky water dripping from its edges, forgoing the good altogether to ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: 2017, A+E, arts, Author, Boston, Cambridge, Dig, DigBoston, fiction, Free, harvard, Harvard Book Store, Homesick for Another World, Interview, literature, Ottessa Moshfegh, Reading

MASS FICTION: THE ASTEROID THEORY

Written by RICHARD J FARRELL Posted November 1, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

In different ways, I lost my two best friends, but I gained something too. On that rainy, fall night, I glimpsed the way life could be, when everything breaks just right.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: fiction, Halloween, Massachusetts, Worcester

NEW FICTION: NEXT YEAR’S SHOW

Written by MARY SWITALSKI Posted October 5, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

The opening band sounds like Dick Dale on downers. Dual vocalists split the front of the stage. The hipster, stage-left, plays rhythm, mic on distortion.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: fiction, live music, Mary Switalski, Next Year's Show, Slush Pile Magazine

NEW FICTION: EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN

Written by BEN HINSHAW Posted August 16, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

Her commitment had been total until, during one of four weekly after-class sessions, she lost concentration when her coach’s interest diverted visibly to a younger girl stretching on a nearby mat.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: Ben Hinshaw, DigBoston, fiction, Slush Pile Magazine, Summer Fiction, trampoline fiction

SUMMER FICTION: THERE WILL ALWAYS BE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

Written by WIL WEITZEL Posted June 22, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction

That night I decided my hunch had been right all summer that nothing else in my life had ever mattered. I was encapsulated in darkness.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction Tagged With: Dig Fiction, fiction, lifeguard fiction, pool fiction, Slush Pile, Summer Fiction, Wil Weitzel

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