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

Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone”

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

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The Story of a Song Writer

George was staying in a barebones, weekly rate place he went to clubs every night. He caught glimpses of song writing legends like ray price and harland howard. With the encouragement of jenny's mother, who believed in him, he wrote a bunch of songs and sold two. When she was old enough that she didn't need much minding as a teanager, she stopped talking to him. After her mother died of cancer, she was more open to his company. Her mother had been mam he was gor ge. But the truth was he took a lot from those women in terms of how they talked, what they talked about. They bent language like glass makers

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