Novelist John Irving says he knew he was on track when he figured out how “Queen Esther” would end. Now he faced a new challenge: How the story began. “Like all my novels, that’s the thing I see most ...

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I climbed out my daughter’s bedroom window and scrambled up to the ridge of the house. I felt it before I saw it, and then, I saw it. It was just around the corner, a block away, and it had traveled ...