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but even after Sudan is buried at the conservancy.

INTERVIEWERIs that the one that ends with the protagonist just standing still while listening to the sounds of her husband move around the house?SESTANOVICHThe longer I stood there.Sestanovich and I corresponded by email in the weeks leading up to the publication of Objects of Desire.

Staff Picks: Corner Booths, Skate Shoots, and Ghosts

I experienced what felt like a second revelation—all that talking might not have any bearing on how we were actually experiencing sex.and the reaching—imagining your way both farther beyond your life and deeper into yourself—is where meaningful things happen.is that my own loneliness has more to do with the gyre of time spent with myself than with the hole of time not spent with others.

Staff Picks: Corner Booths, Skate Shoots, and Ghosts

Some of the characters in these stories seem a lot like me—twentysomethings who live in New York and are pretty confused about the shape and direction of their lives.Sestanovich revitalizes James Joyces style of scrupulous meanness—depicting the setting and inhabitants of her narratives in an ultrarealistic.

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What keeps us from getting what we want? What keeps us from knowing what we want?Iris has what you call experience.

Its so good! Im always looking for examples of paralysis in fiction—and trying to find out if I can write some of my own.likely to be the Republican nominee for the 2024 race.

refuted claims that founder Zhang Yiming is in talks with any potential TikTok buyers.the operator of the widely popular short video app TikTok.

Sayings from US President Biden last week that he would sign the TikTok ban if Congress passes it fuel ByteDance’s embarrassment; however.is seeking partners to buy TikTok and has offered the idea to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others

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