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    On Classic Party Fiction

    by Elisa Gabbert Dec 31, 2019 2 minutes

    We’re away until January 6, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2019. Enjoy your holiday!

    Irving Nurick, illustration from the 1920s

    In of Cecily von Zeigesar’s novels, Janet Malcolm quotes the eponymous narrator’s “opening volley”: “We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bathrooms

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