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Donald Antrim Reads Donald Barthelme 2021

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Balloon, by Donald Bartholmy

"It's a story, perhaps the donald barthamy story that werolar responding to. I have to laugh when he finds the most, like, the worst comment on it is to say, it's interestingr suchsuch a damning with faint praise," says Wernicke. "To me, it's a story about innocence as well ... It's just a balloon, but it has to stand for a lifetime of thinking about balloons radon."

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