English: Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

To be enchanted by Megan Staffel and Adrienne Perry dancing to this song at the MFA residency:

Which we heard so that Megan could underscore the use of  cultural detail to  create richness and  dissonance in fiction.

And to hear Patrick Sommerville read this:

Click here or visit Guernicamag.com to read the story.