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

Greg Jackson Reads “The Hollow”

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

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Jack and Sophie - The Last Time I Saw Her, She's All Right

Jack supposed that he had been the one to phone daniel, but it no longer felt that way. Daniel was a successful magazine writer and someone sophy often turned to for professional advice. Jack could picture her sitting at the bar, her black hair unfurling about her face as she bent over her journal, pensive and day dreaming. He did not want to hurt sophie, but at he felt the urge to be crude and even sometimes mean. It welled up in him like an irresistible pressure building behind the prim dishonesty that obscured the raw, dark realities of the heart. Later, with nothing to do, he telephoned valente. "My mamma is

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