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James Salter Reads Reynolds Price

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Milton's Final Mother

The final mother is about a 12-year-old boy, and his response with the aftermath through a tragedy in his family. He had a voice that made you think you knew him from listening to him. People do bad things in his books, but there's no bad people. "Keep an open mind because it is a little bit allegorical, a little bit supernatural," he says.

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