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Ben Lerner Reads John Berger

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is There a Lover in the Room?

"The dead don't stay where they are buried. The dead can choose where they want to live on earth, always supposing they want to stay on earth," writes the author. "I met her in the Prasada Alagria, a small public garden with elms, palms, and jacaranda trees, very old looking", he says of meeting his mother for the first time.

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