Weike Wang joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Katania,” by Lara Vapnyar, which appeared in a 2013 issue of the magazine. Wang's first novel, “Chemistry,” won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018.
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A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman...
- Kevin Barry Reads V. S. Pritchett Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 -0500
Kevin Barry joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Family Man,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Barry is a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the author of six books of fiction, most recently the story collection “That Old Country Music,” which came out in 2020.
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- Duration: 51:04 Download file
- Will Mackin Reads George Saunders Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:00:00 -0500
Will Mackin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Falls,” by George Saunders, which was published in The New Yorker in 1996. Mackin’s first book, “Bring Out the Dog,” was published in 2018 and won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.
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- Duration: 56:00 Download file
- Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:00:00 -0400
Ben Lerner joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “In the Name of Bobby,” by Julio Cortázar, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Lerner is the author of seven books of fiction and poetry, including the novels “10:04” and “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
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- Duration: 55:53 Download file
- Donald Antrim Reads Donald Barthelme Fri, 01 Oct 2021 12:00:00 -0400
Donald Antrim joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Balloon,” by Donald Barthelme, which was published in The New Yorker in 1966. Antrim is the author of three novels and the story collection “The Emerald Light in the Air.” His memoir, “One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival,” will be published this month.
“The Balloon” (c) 1966, by Donald Barthelme, performed with permission of the Wylie Agency, LLC.
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- Duration: 37:20 Download file
- Rebecca Curtis Reads Haruki Murakami Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:00:00 -0400
Rebecca Curtis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Curtis is the author of the story collection “Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money.”
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- Duration: 61:26 Download file
- Ann Patchett Reads Maile Meloy Sun, 01 Aug 2021 12:00:00 -0400
Ann Patchett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Proxy Marriage,” by Maile Meloy, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. Patchett is the author of eight novels, including “Commonwealth” and “The Dutch House,” which was a finalist for last year’s Pulitzer Prize.
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- Duration: 69:39 Download file
- Susan Choi Reads Jennifer Egan Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:00:00 -0400
Susan Choi joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Found Objects,” by Jennifer Egan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2007. Choi is the author of five novels, including “My Education” and “Trust Exercise,” which won the National Book Award in 2019.
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- Duration: 65:05 Download file
- Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:00:00 -0400
Ben Okri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,” four short fiction pieces by Franz Kafka, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, which were published in The New Yorker in June of 2020. Okri is the author of two dozen books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including the novels “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which was published in 2019.
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- Duration: 46:12 Download file
- Téa Obreht Reads Thomas McGuane Sat, 01 May 2021 12:00:00 -0400
Téa Obreht joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Gallatin Canyon,” by Thomas McGuane, which appeared in a 2003 issue of the magazine. Obreht is the author of two novels, “The Tiger's Wife” and “Inland.”
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- Duration: 57:37 Download file
- Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:00:00 -0400
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- Duration: 60:34 Download file
- Douglas Stuart Reads Kevin Barry Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:00:00 -0500
Douglas Stuart joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Fjord of Killary,” by Kevin Barry, which appeared in a 2010 issue of the magazine. Stuart’s first novel, “Shuggie Bain,” won the Booker Prize in 2020.
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- Duration: 54:04 Download file
- Hisham Matar Reads Colm Tóibín Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:00:00 -0500
Hisham Matar joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “One Minus One,” by Colm Tóibín, which appeared in a 2007 issue of the magazine. Matar’s most recent book, the memoir “A Month in Siena,” came out last year.
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- Duration: 68:57 Download file
- Chang-rae Lee Reads Steven Millhauser Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:00:00 -0500
Chang-rae Lee joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Coming Soon,” by Steven Millhauser, which appeared in a 2013 issue of the magazine. Lee’s sixth novel, “My Year Abroad,” will be published in February.
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- Duration: 57:04 Download file
- Samantha Hunt Reads Yiyun Li Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:00:00 -0500
Samantha Hunt joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Sheltered Woman,” by Yiyun Li, which appeared in a 2014 issue of the magazine. Hunt’s four books of fiction include the story collection “The Dark Dark,” which was published in 2017, and “The Seas,” for which she won the National Book Foundations’s 5 Under 35 Award in 2006.
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- Duration: 64:53 Download file
- Elizabeth Strout Reads William Trevor Sun, 01 Nov 2020 12:00:00 -0500
Elizabeth Strout joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Bravado,” by William Trevor, which appeared in a 2007 issue of the magazine. Strout’s most recent book, “Olive Again,” an Oprah’s book-club pick, was published in 2019.
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- Duration: 47:46 Download file