Story in new yorker

Story in current new yorker P.E. by victor indato another great example of the losers populating current American short fiction - much morebthe lunatic fringe of outsider than the lonely existential hero of 50 years ago. Today's outsider believes as does Fred in this story in parallel lives has severe social anxieties as well as body dysmorphia no connectionnw family friends neighbors um married and unlikely ever to be in other words far out on the fringes and I wonder if the type is becoming a trope or a cliche -
Do these people exist or do they exist in order to fuel a story? I totally got into this story in spite of these reservations but felt let down at the end as if indato was more interested in establishing a character or condition than in doing anything w his material. Promising talent though if he can develop an arc of a story.

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