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What's exciting about Dani Shapiro's account "Supernova" is "its give attention to the slight catastrophe that is Shenkman, a comparatively prosperous man whose slight shortcomings feel, to him together, monumental and impossible to ignore," writes Benjamin Samuel, co-editor of Electric Literature, in his introduction to this problem of Recommended Reading. "Despite rowing every day, obsessively race against an old competitor in a computerized simulation, no person even understands Shenkman is still competing. Worse still, he isn't even wanting to win nowadays, just wanting to transpose his sense of defeat on anyone remaining in the contest. Shenkman's last expect attaining something is his son, Waldo, who spends so enough time stargazing, so disconnected from the real world, that he's slipped out of Shenkman's reach. "'Supernova' is a story that succeeds due to its exceptional treatment of the mediocre, it's give attention to the center of the pack where almost all of spend our days. It reminds us that we can exalt the quotidian, and this normalcy can be something to commemorate.... Because almost all of the time presence doesn't end with a bang or perhaps a whimper, sometimes life ends with a shrug."
