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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Joan Silber Reads “Evolution”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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I Was a Creature of My Times, I Said, Actually, Nini Had Had Affairs With Women and Was in Love With Me

"I turned out to be much closer to normal than my poor mother ever expected. I got into cocaine a little in college, and some of my boy friends were alarming, but i was all right." "When i came home to frozen new york for christmas break, i felt distant and older. But i was happy to see nini again".

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