
Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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The Man in a Roll Neck Sweater
Monica worked at a factory where they electroplated bathroom xtures. A man in a roll neck sweater let himself in and stood watching her. He was older than her, but not by much. What did he want? Nothing bad. She wanted nothing to do with him. Everything about him was wrong. Go away, she said. But he wouldn't stop talking. Finally she waved th room, made as if she were gong to hit him with it. I left you something - an l p by an all girl bannd from don she knew them. They were good, but this album had a sort of soft pawn cover, the three band members topless and covered
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