
David Means Reads Lorrie Moore
The New Yorker: Fiction
The Banalities of Life
Livy and Delia's father spoke to them about their mother, who had died 18 months before. He seemed a little rinsed of all of us, even of his own three children. Who wanted to share the banalities of this life right now? The shuttered theaters and museums made the gloom of cities everywhere a harrowing one.
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