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Joseph O’Neill Reads Muriel Spark

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Bicentennial

There's a kind of mystery at the center of this story. The idea of mystery and inexplicably is central to Sparks imagination. She doesn't actually believe in realism. And I think she once described herself as a post rationalist.

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