5/24/2023 0 Comments Sigrid nunez the friend![]() ![]() Good writers know they should read their work aloud. She takes a plastic bucket and a shovel with her to pick up his “poop.” Because dogs are not permitted in her apartment, she receives eviction notices from the management office, throws them away. What is real about that? She names the dog Apollo, and people stop and stare when she walks him in New York’s Central Park. The writer says no one puts technology in their stories now, even though students spend hours on their devices. They were not lovers, though some thought they were. ![]() ![]() This friend, the narrator, speaks kindly of him, can’t understand why he took his life. He always said he wrote better after a long walk, so he’d walk many miles. The narrator’s friend felt writers were ashamed to be writers. Wife number three begs the friend to take the dead man’s dog, a great Dane. ![]() The friend, who remains nameless, goes to his memorial and meets his ex-wives, number one, number two, and three. He thought that was good for their writing. As a professor, he seduced students, and others seduced him. She talks to him as if he is with her, asks him questions, gets no answers. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez is told by a friend to her friend, a former writer and writing teacher, who has just committed suicide. ![]()
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