https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/the-welfare-state-fiction-nell-zink
Dec 21, 2025 - Fiction by Nell Zink: Julia had longed to be an educated mother like Vroni, but there was never a serviceable father in view, so she had limited herself to...
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https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/nell-zink-reads-the-welfare-state
Dec 21, 2025 - On The Writer’s Voice podcast, Nell Zink reads “The Welfare State,” her story from the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue of The New Yorker.
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