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David Means Reads Lorrie Moore

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Voicemail of a Dying Person

A derecho knocked out power to the town of Glenn Glenn for almost a week. After six days unannounced, the lights came slyly silently back on. "I had lost all interest in myself and all conviction or belief in forms generally," he says.

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