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Adam Levin Reads “A Lot of Things Have Happened”

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

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I Don't Demand, Let's Just Say Nothing

"I had a true blue dick head in a workshop i taught once, a terrible piece of shit of a person," he writes. "It gave me great pleasure to witness him, witness himself overpowered and forced to lie about himself." He says it was a pleasure to humiliate him more than if he'd actually been humble.

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