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Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone”

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

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'I'm Ready,' She Said.

After two hours of driving, they arrived in memphis. He took the business loop off the freeway and pulled up to an intersection to let her out. A wave of panic went through him. She must have searched every hotel lot this boulevard. But she continued to stand there next to his car, looking down skeleton, arms folded over her chest. It was how she'd moved when he'd pulled over for her, when he'd thought she was a man. This gave him some out. He felt he was going all the way to austen, but he could get rid of her sometime to day in arkansas,. wherever he claimed he was going. They were back in the

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