Short-a-Day: Richard Powers's "To the Measures Fall" by Aaron Riccio

Originally published in The New Yorker, Oct. 18, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 86."Your recent change, of course, has crushed your father. He long hoped that you would follow through on that Kennedy-inspired dream of community service. You, who might have become a first-rate social worker. You, who might have done good things for the species, or at least for the old neighborhood. But life will be…

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