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From a Farther Room — New Yorker short story
The New Yorker doesn’t often publish speculative fiction, so when it does it’s an event. David Gilbert’s short story, “From a Farther Room” falls into that category, but unfortunately the story suffers from a failure of nerve and backs off from a great premise to provide instead a pretty lame metaphor for suburbia and the wasting power of a stale marriage. Oh, how the ghost of John Updike still haunts the editorial sensibilities of Read more…
