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David Means Reads Lorrie Moore

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Windstorm: A Memoir

It's a classic literary trope to kind of call in the weather to personify the emotion that's happening internally. So do you think that windstorm is meant to be symbolic? I think that weather is always symbolic, if looked at from an emotional standpoint. We're locked in technological space most of the story. But she does mention that the seasons keep going. Weather keeps going.

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