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Mary Costello Reads “The Choc-Ice Woman”

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

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Reflections on Dennis, Libraries, and Robert Musil

The chapter explores the narrator's encounter with Dennis, a man who sparked their love for books, their time as a librarian, and the impact of a Dutch student who introduced them to Robert Musil's stories. It also touches on a conversation about a man named Frank and a potential mix-up at the morgue.

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