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Alejandro Zambra Reads “Skyscrapers”

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

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I Don't Like New York, Why Not?

After class, the professor and his assistant headed quickly out to the parki lot. Shoster rubbed his chin as though, caressing a thick imaginary beard. I could easily imagine him as some one's father. Almost all the adult i knew had at least one child. The thought that schuster had produced two or more human beings seemed to me in that moment, strange or perhaps alarming.

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