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Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner

The New Yorker: Fiction

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A Stranger With a Bag

"There's something so ridiculous about the situation that he ends up in, but i don't know, i just found it really relatable," she said. "It seems like the second that the story he imagined proves not to be the truth, he starts another one."

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