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Doctors Believed Woody Brown Would Never Understand Language. He’s Publishing a Novel.

Doctors believed that Woody Brown would never be able to speak or process language. He went to graduate school and is publishing his debut novel.

© Peyton Fulford for The New York Times

“I have all the thoughts, dreams, longings and intelligence as any neurotypical person,” says Woody Brown, the author of “Upward Bound,” here with his mother at their California home.

Gao Ertai: The desert flower that keeps blooming

“Some see in his critique of the Mao era parallels to today: the arbitrary rule of an aging leader, harsh treatment of dissent, and government programs that encourage people to inform on one another.” My profile of the octogenarian essayist Gao Ertai, who lived for years in the deserts of western China and now resides in Las Vegas.

Read the article  in The New Yorker online here.

Read the Chinese translation in the Boston Review of Books (波斯頓書評) here.

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