Ursula K. Le Guin : Words Are My Matter
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A Review on Serious Literature
This piece is a response to a review by ruth franklin in sleet in may of two thousand and seven. And she wrote the book she was reviewing, michael chabon has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of jean refiction out of the shallow grave where writers hav serious literature abandoned it. This is me now responding. Something woke her in the night. Was it steps she heard coming up the stairs? Somebody in wet training shoes climbing the stairs very slowly? But who and why wet shoes? It hadn't rained for weeks. There again, the heavy, soggy sound. The air close with a clawing hint of mildew, or
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