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Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore

Lifestyle & Belief

Lori Moore’s new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is about a young woman who gets a job as a nanny for a family in her Midwestern college town. Moore tells Kurt how living in the Midwest shaped her view of the post-September 11th era.

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