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March 18, 1944

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Featured Pick

fiction

Three Ladies in the Morning

Roger Angell

The author’s début short story in The New Yorker, about two women who encounter a surprising scene over their morning coffee at a hotel restaurant.

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The Bard in the Delicatessen

Philip Hamburger