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Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

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

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The Secret of Love

i recognized that the idea of being penetrated and dominated was exciting to me too. Love wasn't a slumber party with your best friend, love had death in it. Inconveniently, i seemed not to have retained chahin's friend's name. Ham talked about his girl friend in anchorage who had an eating disorder. He said there were lots of other things we could do. It turned out there was always a party somewhere. You didn't have to know the people whose room it was.

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