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Akhil Sharma Reads Joyce Carol Oates

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Do You Think That the Story Is Merely Observing or Disapproving?

Do you think that the story is simply observing or disapproving, or trying to point out something about the larger world of medicine? You know, i assume that the text that is excerpted is an actual text, and to that extent, it contains within it confusion and horror. I mean, the story largely in real time, which is super stressful as a reader. And then the story is also such a pleasurable experience on a sentence level. For example, my name is c p coma, and i am 29 years old. Comma, three months i see my probation officer. Comma,. ten a m comma, mitherapist. Coma, doctor e coma, mond

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