"Likes," by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
In the New Yorker, October 2nd, 2017 (read); read very well by David Bezmozgis for the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, April 2024 (listen)
A few thousand words?
Damn, that's a great evocation of a moment in history and, it seems to me, of parenthood. Not that I know anything about parenthood. But the obsessive quality of this dad's worry, I understand just fine.
"There's so much vagueness around the election. The year is never given. The name of the candidates is never given," Bezmozgis remarks, and wonders if future generations will need footnotes. I find this vagueness so interesting.
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