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Daniel Menaker

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3 picks · 1980–1986

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Last Lessons
fiction ·

The writer's elderly Uncle Sol is dying slowly in his Berkshires farmhouse. It is the middle of December & unusually cold... Uncle Sol's doctor, …

Continuing Care
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Somehow the writer's Uncle Sol, 89, made it through the winter in his apartment in N.Y. & went back up to his house in the Berkshires. Writer had to …

I Spy
fiction ·

David, the narrator, recalls his brief experience as an industrial spy. His father had once been involved in some minor espionage work for the Communist …