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Antonya Nelson Reads Mavis Gallant

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Galant Stories - A Novel Review

We published dozens of Galant stories over the years. What was it about this story that made you choose it? Well, if I could have, I would have read a lengthy two-hour story of hers. But I liked the sense that the reader is in the same position as the character and waiting for something to occur. Also, it seems to celebrate the way that a life changes just because it's time for it to change.

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