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Kevin Barry Reads “The Pub with No Beer”

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

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The Bar, He Said, and Dipped Beneath the Bar.

The pub had been his father's for the long shift of four decades. The bar top was polished to show its grain and the nicks and scratches of its great age. Neither loudness nor drunkenness in this barroom had ever been tolerated. There is such a thing as a togtful pub, his father had always maintained.

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