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Gordon Lish

Gordon Lish is the author of numerous works of fiction. He was an editor at Esquire and Alfred A. Knopf, and founded and edited the literary magazine The Quarterly.

Mar/Apr 2017

The Deed

By Gordon Lish

Before I die, which, you know, could happen—who can say when?—which could, for that matter, happen, for instance, right in the midst of my sitting here writing this, I would […]