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

Jonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley”

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

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Lafferty's Awakening

The story is headed into crisis because the white family must, as in Lafferty's original, meet an Indian. Will they only camp on it? They haven't decided. We have to pretend this might work out, even though we know it doesn't,. Whether we have readLafferty's version or not. There are two names for this operation, suspension of disbelief and bad faith. An Indian.

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