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    We Love to Be Lied To: On ‘Bunk’ by Kevin Young

    by Nick Ripatrazone Nov 13, 2017 3 minutes

    The June 1999 issue of Esquire was full of essays about fathers: Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Cash, and . “The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams” was Navajo writer Nasdijj’s dizzying, heartbreaking essay about his young son, who had died from fetal alcohol syndrome. Nasdijj’s essay was as pithy as his cover letter to the magazine, which claimed “In the entire history of magazine, you have never once published an American Indian writer. This oversight is profound.”

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