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Rachel Kushner Reads Edna O’Brien

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Hallmarks of a Writer

The story wasu shed one month after she left her husband september of 19 62, as she records in her wonderful memoir, country girl. Her marriage was characterized by what to me seems like incredible brutality, just emotional brutality. And a, there's this feeling that to be a girl in ire and in the 19 fifties is to live in a world where men, archbishops, priests, fathers and brothers make all of a girl's decisions for her ad.

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