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

Joan Silber Reads “Evolution”

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

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I Loved Myself, but I Was Not Sure How to Get Away With Them

"I could not have been prouder of myself in those days to be following sex as my guiding star. I thought that any one who didn't have my opportunities was living a lesser life," she says. "In the world around me, people believed in sex and whether they don't quite any more, did we run that idea into the ground, over play it?" 'It wasn't my mother's fault. She never neglected me, before or after the divorce, or led me to think that she would'

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