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Jonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley”

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

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The Winnebago, Mr. Blue Sky

"The past is huge and real, but you are small," says the author. The frontier has become one of recursion, quotation, paraphrase, allegory. "To re-enter the valley of the past is properly to grow tiny and to vanish," he writes.

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