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Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

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

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Is This Good?

The year had somehow ended without my ever again waiting for Svitlana in her room, looking at her books. Now we lived in di buildings, and eventually we would live far apart, and i would never hang out in her bedroom. How brief and magical it was that we lived so close to each other and our most important job was to solve mysteries. The temporariness made it all the more important to follow the right leads.

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