{"id":158507588,"date":"2025-03-06T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writetosuccess.net\/story-hour-502-by-lucia-berlin\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:20:29","slug":"story-hour-502-by-lucia-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writetosuccess.net\/de\/story-hour-502-by-lucia-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Hour: &#039;502&#039; by Lucia Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1433863448220-78aaa064ff47?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzfHxyYWlueXxlbnwwfHx8fDE3NDEyNjE4ODl8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080\" alt=\"glass with dew\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a grim day and I have a cold. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my comfort books is Lucia Berlin\u2019s <em>A Manual for Cleaning Women<\/em>. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The short story I\u2019m reading, \u2018502\u2019, is characteristically sharp, tragicomic, clear-eyed and subtle. Like the rest of the collection, it begs to be read again and again. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More on Lucia Berlin via <em>The New Yorker<\/em>: \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-story-is-the-thing-on-lucia-berlin\">The Story is the Thing<\/a>\u2019<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/sep\/30\/a-manual-for-cleaning-women-lucia-berlin-review-short-stories\">review <\/a>of <em>A Manual for Cleaning Women<\/em> in the <em>Guardian<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a grim day and I have a cold. One of my comfort books is Lucia Berlin\u2019s A Manual for Cleaning Women. The short story I\u2019m reading, \u2018502\u2019, is characteristically sharp, tragicomic, clear-eyed and subtle. Like the rest of the collection, it begs to be read again and again. 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