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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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Lafferty's the Winnebago

Lafferty's story, originally published in 1966, still has much to recommend it. "The Winnebago may be blundering into a valley of palimpsest," he writes. Lafferty: The story acknowledges its utter colonization by its own procedure of serially confessing its sources.

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