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This past May, One Story hosted our first fundraiser, where visual artists created original work based
on short stories from the magazine. In our new issue, “The Omega Point or Happy Birthday Baby,” the
reverse has happened–a writer has written a short story based on a collection of art. Personally, I
love to see different mediums riffing off each other this way, especially when the result is so
fantastic. And so now fellow readers, let’s all step back and roll out the red carpet and welcome A.M.
Homes to the pages of One Story.
When I was first introduced to A.M. Homes’s work, I was a bookseller in Massachusetts, and a friend
pressed a copy of her collection, The Saftey of Objects in my hands. I had never read a writer who
broke so many rules so well, and I tore through her other books: Jack, In A Country of Mothers, and The
End of Alice. Later, I waited for her new books to be released with great anticipation: Music for
Torching, Things You Should Know, This Book Will Save Your Life, and her memoir The Mistress’s
Daughter. She is hands-down one of my favorite authors.
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