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Benjamin Hale, Brother Who Comes Back Before the Next Very Big Winter

The author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore and The Fat Artist reads from his story in Conjunctions:64, Natural Causes at a celebration of Conjunctions’ twenty-fifth anniversary at Bard College, March 26, 2015.

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