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• Malamud's last and unfinished novel in sixteen chapters with the "Author's Notes" in the end.

"Armistice". [Written in Washington in 1940.]

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"Spring Rain". [Written in 1942.]

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"The Literary Life of Laban Goldman". Assembly, 1 (November, 1943), pp. 24-27.

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"The Grocery Store". [Written in 1944.]

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"Benefit Performance". Threshold, 3 (February, 1943), pp. 20-22.

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"The Place is Different Now". American Preface, 8 (Spring, 1943), pp. 230-242.

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"An Apology". Commentary, 12 (November, 1951), pp. 460-464.

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"Riding Pants". [Written in 1953.]

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"A Confession of Murder". [The first section of the unpublished novella The Man Nobody Could Lift. Written in 1952-53.]

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"The Elevator". The Paris Review, 31 (Fall, 1989), pp. ?? [Written in Italy in 1957]

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"An Exorcism". Harper's, 237 (December, 1968), pp. 534-540.

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"A Wig". Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic, 245 (January, 1980), pp. 33-36.

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"Zora's Noise". Gentlemen's Quarterly [GQ], 245 (January, 1985), pp. 124-126, 164-168.

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"A Lost Grave". Esquire, 103 (May, 1985), pp. 204, 206.

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"In Kew Garden". Partisan Review, [Double Anniversary Issue] 51 (1984), and 52 (1985), pp. 536-540.

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"Alma Redeemed". Commentary, 78 (July, 1984), pp. 30-34.

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