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    Help! My Friend Is a Vaper, and Other Questions

    by Lorin Stein Aug 03, 2017 2 minutes

    Dear Paris Review,

    I’m suspicious of memoirs. I don’t think people remember things as well as the genre suggests they do, and life doesn’t play out so neatly. I love Vivian Gornick’s writing partly because her memoirs work according to different rules, but she seems

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