Email Author Nathan Ihara

2006 Stories by Nathan Ihara

• A Severed Head Awakes

  published November 16, 2006

  Ever since her death by guillotine in 1793, writers have been sticking their hands up inside Marie Antoinette’s bloody stump to use her... More >>

• Bedtime Stories

  published September 21, 2006

  You can’t sleep. The next night, you still can’t sleep. You don’t know it yet, but you will never sleep again. You shut your... More >>

• Pretty Mysterious

  published August 17, 2006

  When it comes to most art, I’m an advocate of lowering the bar. Call me conservative or simply pessimistic, but I’d much rather... More >>

• Sex in the Age of Irony

  published July 13, 2006

  A friend of mine has been working as a dominatrix in a high-end dungeon, and we’d been kicking around the idea of writing a book about... More >>

• It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World

  published June 1, 2006

  Former Young & Rubicam advertising executive James P. Othmer has written a debut novel so slick and seductive, you’ll find yoursel... More >>

• Lemony Snippets

  published May 4, 2006

  Once, in a writing workshop I attended, a young woman presented her short story to the class. She was an irrefutably clever writer, she had... More >>

• Poor, Solitary, Nasty, Brutish and Short

  published April 27, 2006

  Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail, the follow-up to his PEN/Hemingway award–winning Graceland, is rich with suffering.... More >>