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George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Being a Good Man

We get a constant movement with him in that he comes so close to admitting what's wrong, you know, as he does with the story about his mother when Sabine is telling him. He wants to deflect it, but he sort of thinks she might be right. And then the last beautiful thing is in that little interchange where he's like, I gotta get away from this woman. She actually shuts him down which kind of echoes beautifully with the end.

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