Short Story - The Dinner Party

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It's rare to find artfully composed contemporary short stories these days, short of published collections by Jhumpa Lahiri and the like. I was presently surprised to read something this good in the New Yorker. It's worth it:

The Dinner Party Joshua Ferris

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/08/11/080811fi_fiction_ferris