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Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs”

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

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The Man Who Said It All

Andy had written from so alarmingly far away as antarctica to say, somebody needs to tell you. He was she gathered something like ten thousand miles away in a near permanent night. But conditions having irrevocably changed, he would be at it this year until the first of july. Andy reached her by satelli phone at four dollars a minute and quickly revealed that his bad news hadn't direct bearing on her. I think nicky hanged himself. She said, anna's son? Anna's son is 11. And 12. Her mind raced. Was it something not even her husband knew about? How badly would it embarrass her? Would it finish off her so called career

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