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December 24, 2007

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Featured Pick

fiction

Beginners

Raymond Carver

Drinking gin and talking about love (This is a draft of Carver’s story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” without Gordon Lish’s edits.)

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Natalie

Anne Enright

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Elizabeth Kolbert