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David Rabe Reads John Updike

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Other Side of the Street

I think it's kind of astonishing, really, when I reread it, certain parts of it. How does he remember all that? Yeah. The specificity about the candy jar and the top where it's placed,. And even just feeling the house shake a little as he's walking toward the floor. That's much more meditative. But for me, perhaps the most amazing part of it is this just flow of detail which is packed in with so much specificity.

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