Rivka Galchen Reads Aleksandar Hemon
The New Yorker: Fiction
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Discussion on the Grim Ending and Lack of Humor in the Mule Story
The speakers discuss a chapter in which a mule dies of thirst with its head tied to its leg, acknowledging the grimness of the ending while appreciating the beauty in the storytelling and contrasting it with the humor found throughout the rest of the story.
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