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Jean Stafford: “Children Are Bored on Sunday”

November 26, 2018 by Trevor Berrett

This week The New Yorker published two stories from their archive as part of their “Holliday Reading” issue. Here we have Jean Stafford’s “Children Are Bored on Sunday,” which was originally published in the February 21, 1948 issue of the magazine.

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Jean Stafford: “Children Are Bored on Sunday”

November 26, 2018May 15, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor looks at Jean Stafford’s “Children Are Bored on Sunday,” from the February 21, 1948 issue of The New Yorker. Read the full post.

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