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David Rabe Reads John Updike

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Other Side of the Street by John Up-Tike

David Rabe reads The Other Side of the Street by John Up-Tike. This story is about a man who returns to his home state after 40 years. It's set in Hayesville, Pennsylvania where he lives with his wife and their two young children. David: "I think it's similar in a way in terms of the territory ... But that whole way he can mash the present with the past"

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