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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Benefits of Long Sentences

A long sentence is a journey and by the time you're at E, you've kind of forgotten what A is. And especially in that first section, the sentences get longer and longer as you go. "I don't rest on something that would make the meaning of the story less interesting," he says. The metaphor of flight is, I think, very self-aware in its cliche.

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