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Thomas McGuane

Thomas McGuane began contributing fiction to The New Yorker in 1994. His latest book is “ Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories.”

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4 picks · 1994–2013

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Stars
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Once she’d reached the edge of the meadow, she stopped, unable at first to understand what she was seeing: two figures, proximate and mutually wary, one …

Tango
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Acknowledging that there is a difference between being naive and being innocent, I will say that I was entirely naive back then.

Old Friends
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John Briggs was made aware of the fact that some sort of problem existed for his friend and former schoolmate Erik Faucher by the sheer accident of a request for information from their former class secretary, Everett Hoyt, who in the thirty years since they’d graduated from Yale had hardly set foot out of New

War And Peace
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They concluded that my attitude was from being by myself so much, so Karen arranged to bring the Indian to the house for a visit. It so happens that I know…