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

Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

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

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The First Time We Kissed Anyone on the Lips

Irena nikolaevna asked each of us to describe the first time we kissed any one on the lips. Spilana said she had kissed her cousin's boy friend at the zoo when she was 13. Julia said he didn't love her. Andre said he was playing games. Svetlana, who spoke russian a billion times better than the rest of us, said we discussed the difference between kissing on the cheek, accusative singular, and on the lips, accusative plural. It turned out that she thought i ought to have been younger.

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