
Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner
The New Yorker: Fiction
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What if It Wasn't Like That?
Andi was just thinking about how many of the stories are about how to get out of routine. I kind of like that about it, that it could be a different story. Perhaps there's something intrinsic to the short story form that it's about the search for freedom. You can't do a short story that's just which, everything is routine, yes? But routine is like a good starting place, because it's very economical.
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