Posts by Mary Miller

Mary Miller's short story collection, Big World, was published in February, 2009. Her fiction has been published in McSweeney's Quarterly, Black Clock, Oxford American, Indiana Review, New Stories from the South, Mississippi Review, and many others.



Pushcart Dreamin’

Every year I buy the new Pushcart Prize anthology, eager to read the best work that was published in the previous year, and hoping that one day one of my own stories might find its way into its pages. I’d never thought much about how it worked, but this is what I always assumed: an

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Open Letter to Open City

Dear Open City— Please publish fewer stories written by post-MFA academics living in New York City.  I still love you, but I’m getting tired. Thank you, Mary Miller 1. Bitter Open City is one of two literary magazines that I currently subscribe to, and it’s a magazine in which I’ve always dreamed of having my

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