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Ben Lerner Reads “Café Loup”

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

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The Poems of a Man Who Dies on the Toilet

If I were to die on the toilet tomorrow, I assume Inma wouldn't share many specifics with Astra. As Astra grew older, she would want to know more about the circumstances of my death. At every point of his life, a man who dies on the toilet will have been a man who is going to died on the toilet. And while choking to death isn't as bad as dying on the toilet, there is still something disgraceful about it - especially if you're a little fat and talk too much so that your death is the death of a slob.

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