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...first read, I didn’t get it either. The story, which appears in Budnitz??s newly-released collection “Nice Big American Baby,” describes a white couple’s abuse-riddled marriage brought to crisis by the wife’s birth of a perfectly black boy. She hasn’t had an affair, but her husband’s suspicions turn to hatred of the ebony infant Gabe, assuaged only when the baby’s appearance abruptly changes to that of the white child they would have...
...Nadia,” when a humble science teacher becomes an international adventurer in search of a purchased foreign bride’s abandoned daughter. Once familiar with this hyperbolic style, where the conventions of our physical universe are stretched, or at least exaggerated, the real issues behind Budnitz??s stories are easier to approach...
...adds. But despite the trauma of that allegedly instructional experience—and a half-dozen creative writing classes later—Budnitz realized she was cut out to be a author. The 20-odd short stories that made up her senior thesis formed the bulk of Budnitz??s first published collection, entitled Flying Leap. Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher was one of the oral examiners of Budnitz??s thesis and this year decided to add “Dog Days,” a short story she wrote...
...stories as examples for young writers. “I hope that by including a set of stories by younger writers, I can put in front of students some of the kinds of work they might find interesting in their own generation,” Fisher says. Budnitz??s surrealistic story contrasts with Fisher regulars like the daunting Faulkner and terse Hemingway...
Readers often assume Budnitz??s bizarre stories come from the dark recesses of her mind, but she says most of her inspiration comes from reading the newspaper and watching people walk around in New York City. “People are always saying, ‘Your stories are so crazy,’” Budnitz says, “but I always feel like nothing I write is as crazy as what is happening in the world...
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