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Camille Bordas Reads Saul Bellow

The New Yorker: Fiction

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A Novel About a Man Who's Trying to Pay His Fiance

Sally Kohn: I read the story years ago, a had read it in a long time, and then i was reading through it again. She noticed these kind of pile ups of adjectives. Why so many words? why do we get those?Kohn: It makes sense because he just says any bad word that he can think about. Yes, he's just flooded with yasexactly.

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