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Seth Fried



Seth Fried is a recurring contributor to The New Yorker’s “Shouts and Murmurs” and NPR’s “Selected Shorts.” His writing has also appeared in Tin House, One Story, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Vice, and many others. His short stories have been anthologized in the 2011 and 2013 Pushcart Prize Anthologies as well as The Better of McSweeney’s Vol 2. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée and their two goldfish.

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Average rating: 3.66 · 4,079 ratings · 636 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors
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“Just my luck. The first colleague I'd befriended at the agency and it was an alcoholic supercomputer.”
― Seth Fried, The Municipalists
tags: humor, robots, supercomputer
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“Here, pay attention, what I'm about to tell you is the truest, most important thing: None of us is right.”
― Seth Fried, The Municipalists
tags: fanaticism
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“What I am saying is that only when you give up on the fantasy of moral authority can you approach any problem without doing more harm than good.”
― Seth Fried, The Municipalists
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