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Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry”

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

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The Importance of Perception

"I have been dealing with a lot. How you can perceive the crimson hind wings through the semi-translucent four wings," he writes. "Every photograph asks whether a Ciano type of algae or three men waiting for a bus in Yorkville, 1965." The message from Camila was about Ava's new after-school schedule. It wasn't until I surfaced for lunch that I saw another message from the man and one from an unknown number.

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