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Nicole Krauss Reads “Long Island”

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

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The Importance of Reading

"We didn't go to our parents. That might be hard to fathom now when children immediately go to their parents about everything," he says. In those days we read a lot whatever was around, which was mostly our mother's old paperbacks,. "And then on we saw Uncle Zali in a different light, thinner and limbed with impermanence."

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