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In this one he’ll only have one daughter and no other child. In this one he’ll be divorced and his ex-wife will live in California. In this one he’ll live in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan and not in a house in Baltimore. In this one no one will live on Riverside Drive or West 75th Street. In this one he’ll be a novelist who’s written only five short stories in his entire writing career. In this one he’ll have finished a novel a month or so ago after working on it for more than three years. In this…

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’s most recent works of fiction are the novella Beatrice; Letters to Kevin, a novel; and the collection Late Stories. His story “Two Parts” appeared in the January 2015 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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