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Sherman Alexie Reads Raymond Carver

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Jack London, Better Man Than All of Us, and Even He Couldn't Beat Alcohol?

I think frank martin has a speal. I think he's very experienced at telling stories and it's also his romanticism too. To have that job, to be the person in charge of a rehab facility, you got to be romantic to some degree. So there's this masculine romance. And who else are you going to read for masculine romance then jack london? Yes, yes. Well, jack london comes back again at the end when i, the narrator, thinks about to build a fire. What do you get out of that story? I mean, it's about a man who's dying. He struggles andu he builds it, and then some snow plops

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