Deborah Eisenberg reads “Adventure—concerning Alice Hindman”
From Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
“Sometimes when her employer had gone out and she was alone in the store she put her head on the counter and wept. ‘Oh, Ned, I am waiting,’ she whispered over and over, and all the time the creeping fear that he would never come back grew stronger within her.”
Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four collections of stories: Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne, All Around Atlantis, and Eisenberg’s most commanding collection, Twilight of the Superheroes. She is the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” fellowship and the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Since 1994 she has taught at the University of Virginia.
