Matthew Klam discusses his story “The Other Party,” which appears in this week’s issue of the magazine: “I want to walk through the walls of people’s houses and into their lives, into their stories and secrets and struggles.”
” is set in a residential neighborhood in D.C., where everyone knows everyone and neighbors are truly neighborly. Were you drawing on your own community for this portrait?People around here communicate and are so friendly and helpful. You can borrow oregano on short notice, or get someone to break into your house if you’re stuck in traffic and you left the oven on.
But I’m also reminded as I see my neighbors come and go that there’s a distance between us, and it hurts to be unable to cross that distance. In reality, we can help one another only so much, and the rest of the time we stand by and watch, and it’s tragic. The narrator’s friend and neighbor Terry has just found out that he has A.L.S., and the narrator has a complicated reaction—sympathy for his friend mixed with relief at not being sick himself. Rachel has a similar experience when her friend is sexually assaulted. She tells her father, “A bad thing happened to Lily, but nothing bad happened to me.
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