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Sisters Come Second

The LRB Podcast

CHAPTER

The Imaginative Possibilities of Being an Only Child

There's a sense for some novelist in which you're the only child for all of them. Calm describes it in his introduction to this book, Sisters Come Second. What is it about that business of wanting to be an only child? Is it egotistical or is it a framing device? Well, I think it's pressed to do with no one to share.

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