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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Boots at the Edge of the Cliff

There is a story that the narrator makes up in the second part. And it's almost a high, full-g moment. You know, well, actually there were no boots because the first time you read that, you think, oh, God, the brother eventually he got out and he killed himself. "It just has this peculiarity that feels so specific to the way that you might imagine your brother to do that"

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