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" Today at the Esquire offices here in New York City, we&amp;#039;re welcoming a pack of writers who managed to do a lot with very little. The ten finalists for our second annual Short Short Fiction Contest, in partnership with the Aspen Writers&amp;#039; Foundation, have pieced together the most impressive stories in exactly 79 words among thousands of entrants. They&amp;#039;re currently holed up in our conference room workshopping their pieces with Colum McCann, author of the upcoming Transatlantic and the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin. We&amp;#039;ll be celebrating with the finalists and Colum, and crowning a winner of our fiction throwdown, this evening at The Esquire. There to provide entertainment will be Joe Hurley, a fantastic singer-songwriter who, with the lyrical inspiration of Colum&amp;#039;s book, penned &amp;quot;Let the Great World Spin.&amp;quot; Listen to it below.      Joe has another gig lined up in New York next Thursday, performing in a benefit concert for Rockaway residents affected by Hurricane Sandy. You can get tickets to that here. And if that&amp;#039;s still not enough fiction for you, Esquire, in partnership with Byliner, is releasing an e-book of short stories showcasing four new voices we can all agree on. You can get a copy for your Kindle here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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