“After a little less than three years, the show was finished, but Philip was reticent about wasting his show – which was still called No Title – on people who perhaps were not worthy. In the same way he had been reticent about wasting his love on people who perhaps did not deserve it. Wasted love seemed worse to him than no love at all.”

Voor het online-platform MacGuffin schreef Arnon Grunberg het korte verhaal Concessions, over een jongen, inwonend bij zijn ouders en zus, die zonder werk en romantiek leeft en werkt aan zijn eerste grote comedyshow genaamd No Title. Het verhaal verscheen in mei 2026 samen met zeventien andere verhalen in de uitgave MacGuffin STORIES.

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“After a little less than three years, the show was finished, but Philip was reticent about wasting his show – which was still called No Title – on people who perhaps were not worthy. In the same way he had been reticent about wasting his love on people who perhaps did not deserve it. Wasted love seemed worse to him than no love at all.”

For the online platform MacGuffin, Arnon Grunberg wrote the short story Concessions, about a young man who lives with his parents and sister, has no job or romantic relationship, not even a summer love, and is working on his first big comedy show called No Title. The story appeared alongside seventeen other short stories in the collection MacGuffin STORIES, which was published in May 2026.