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Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs”

May 30, 2022
32:32
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
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2
The Tendency Was Not a Sign of Despair
02:45 • 5min
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3
The Man Who Said It All
08:06 • 2min
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4
You Think He Hanged Himself?
10:23 • 3min
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5
The Poor Child, the Poor Child
13:30 • 3min
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6
She Could Do It. She Could Trade Places With Anna
16:32 • 2min
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'I'm So Sorry, I'm Sorry'
18:13 • 3min
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8
'I'm Not Home,' He Said.
20:59 • 2min
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9
A Woman's Guide to a Broken World
23:04 • 3min
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She Was Something and Not Nothing
26:25 • 4min
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The Boy Upstairs by Joshua Ferris
30:42 • 3min
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Joshua Ferris reads his story “The Boy Upstairs,” from the June 6, 2022, issue of the magazine. Ferris is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” which won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2014, and “A Calling for Charlie Barnes,” which was published last year.

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