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Morgan Hobbs's avatar

I reread Slaves of New York this summer and it was even better than I remembered from when I first read these stories in the 80s. It’s a really funny book, equal to Bright Lights Big City. There’s a fragility and vulnerability beneath the humor. If it is satire it’s more of a gentle social satire than the mocking satire of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (although I like that one too).

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Tardigrade_Sonata's avatar

Oh, for a young writer willing to fail as floridly and epically as Brodkey. Have you ever listened to Richard Ford’s episode of the New Yorker fiction podcast where he reads “The State of Grace?” (His gloss on it is probably better than the story itself.)

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