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Alejandro Zambra Reads “Skyscrapers”

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

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I Don't Care About New York

After an especially turbulent recent fight, he had found a way to ask forgiveness. He cashed in miles for a ticket in my name, tine, because he had chosen the date and the destination which sounded so abstract and so spectacular. Back ten whatever i gleaned from watching sinfield or taxi driver, whatever i moreor es understood from frankinatra's hagnet song,. any other destination would have seemed just as inspiring to me. Because although i'd back packed around a good bit of cilling by bust and train, i had never set foot on an airplane.

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