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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is There a World Without Ideas?

"It's only a very, very small thing that's occurred here. It's microscopic really," she says of the scene in which Rose asks Hubert for some time alone with him. "She didn't realize she had the power to make her own terms," he adds about his wife. 'I know my grandmother used to really irritate my family, but then when I read that line, you know, I understood it'

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