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

Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs”

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

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She Could Do It. She Could Trade Places With Anna

She risked the ice cream for chad's milk shake melting to stop by campus where final grades were due. The chair was a phenomenologist named marvin phillips, who it was rumoured had run aground in phil sopy and now spent his days writing hiko. When she popped her head in the doorway he was sitting behind his desk with his shirt sleeves hiked to his elbows,. raking a back scratcher through his copious salt and pepper armhair. He stood and swift unfurled his shirt sleeves, buttoning the first with rapidity, but the second only with terrific, time consuming struggle. She became self conscious and offered to help, but he waved

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