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Chang-rae Lee Reads Steven Millhauser

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Orderliness and Cleanliness

The novel is about a man who wants to live in a well-managed town. The author says he finds his belonging in civic vitality and orderliness of the place. But then things start to turn for him, as they do in this story.

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