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Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

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

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The Importance of a Father's Visits

Margaret wrote letters to Vincent that she would send by burning in the fireplace. Dearest Abelard, can you believe I've brought another soul onto this wretched planet? She wrote letters to Milton, and he wrote back. The leaves had begun to turn, and it hit Margaret that she'd been in the city for more than a year. Her eye was caught one day by a pallid man, and a girl he was trying to impress, won too young for him.

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