A Few Thoughts from Monet on Those Stacks of Wheat

Beginning in 1890, Claude Monet spent a year painting giant stacks of wheat. Seth Reiss imagines his diary from this period: “Got a little cocky today and tried to put two stacks of wheat in one painting. Total train wreck.” Reiss performs as Monet in his story, originally published in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, with The New Yorker’s E. P. Licursi narrating.