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A worker repairs a giant statue on Tuesday that was damaged during the May 2010 military crackdown on Red Shirt protesters in Bangkok.

A model poses in a representation of Edward Hopper's painting "Morning Sun" at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. The exhibition, "Hopper," brings together the largest selection of works by the artist ever to be shown in Europe. Photo by Javier…

Heather Christle is the author of "What Is Amazing" (Wesleyan University Press), "The Difficult Farm" (Octopus Books, 2009) and "The Trees The Trees" (Octopus Books, 2011), which won the 2012 Believer Poetry Award.

They began as status updates on Facebook, but Lou Beach came to see something more in the short pieces he was writing -- a new form of short story, in fact. And it's an interesting and compelling approach, indeed, in…