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Chang-rae Lee Reads Steven Millhauser

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Levinson's Journey to a Quieter Town

The housing market was on the upswing. Lately, Levinson had been noticing even more activity than usual in his adopted town. He watched with pleasure as a yellow backhoe lifted a jawful of earth and debris into the bed of a high-pile dump truck. When you like to place, you like leaving it so that you could look forward to coming back.

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