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Jonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley”

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

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The Story's Writer, Turn to Stone

The project of literary self-consciousness is hardly novel. It has been indulged in by so many of the writer's immediate and distant influences, from Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick to Jorge Louise Boorhase and Lawrence Stern. The kind of storytelling that doesn't trouble over the existence of the author,. just barrels ever forward, claiming the turf of your attention.

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