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David Means Reads Lorrie Moore

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The War Against the Imagination

There's no more conversations with siblings. We're kind of left to fill in all the stuff around that final scene. It's something that Lori does magically in all of her work. And this is what I think is... This is a personal idea, but it's an issue I have with saying that this is a confessional story and auto-fiction. Even though I felt that when I read it, it's sort of the war against the imagination.

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