When Is a Story Finished?

The Yale Review

Sep 18, 2025

Clare Sestanovich on Katherine Dunn's "Process" and our obsession with endings

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An allegory for the ever-unfulfilled union of life and art. Perhaps Jaikins didn’t know how/when to uncouple the two?

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