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Summer 2010 • Vol. XXXII No. 3 • Nonfiction |

Artichoke Hearts

By E.J. Levy

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E.J. Levy’s debut story collection, Love, In Theory, won the 2012 Flannery O’Connor Award. Her work has appeared in Paris Review, Best American Essays, The New York Times, and won a Pushcart Prize. She is at work on a novel set in Cape Town.

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