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Chang-rae Lee Reads Steven Millhauser

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Subscription of Levinson

Do you think that we should see the story as in a sense a metaphor for how we live for modern life, for the pace of progress or what we call progress? Yeah. In some ways, he's extremely materialistic. Heh, whether even though it's not about his iPhone or the other, that it's just he's. Do you feel the authorial voice in the story, not necessarily Millhauser,. but perhaps Millhauser, do you feel that this narrator is approving or disapproving of what Levinson finds in this town? I think he's a little bit of both and there's a bitter irony to them. Again, that you know, Levinson has

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