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   1 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 21 min

   Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri

   Rebecca Makkai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. Makkai is the author of the story collection “Music for Wartime” and the novels “The Borrower,” “The Hundred Year House,” “The Great Believers,” for which she won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and “I Have Some Questions for You,” which was published last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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   1 Sep 2024 · 1 hr 15 min

   Louise Erdrich Reads Karen Russell

   Louise Erdrich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” by Karen Russell, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Erdrich's novels include “The Round House,” which won the National Book Award in 2012, and “The Night Watchman,” which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2021. She will publish a new novel, “The Mighty Red,” this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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   1 Aug 2024 · 49 min

   David Sedaris Reads George Saunders

   David Sedaris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter,” by George Saunders, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Sedaris is the author of more than a dozen books of essays, memoirs, and diaries, including, most recently, “A Carnival of Snackery” and “Happy-Go-Lucky.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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   1 Jun 2024 · 1 hr 41 min

   André Alexis Reads Alice Munro

   André Alexis joins Deborah Treisman for a special tribute to Alice Munro, who died in May at age ninety-two. Alexis reads and discusses “Before the Change,” by Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1998. Alexis’s works of fiction include “Fifteen Dogs,” which won the Giller Prize, “Days by Moonlight,” and the story collection “The Night Piece,” which was published in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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   1 May 2024 · 57 min

   Rachel Cusk Reads Marguerite Duras

   Rachel Cusk joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Bible" and “The Stolen Pigeons” by Marguerite Duras, which were translated from the French, by Deborah Treisman, and published in *The New Yorker* in 2006 and 2007. Cusk is a winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and is the author of five books of nonfiction and twelve novels, including "Arlington Park," "Outline," "Transit," "Kudos," and "Parade," which will be published in June. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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   E3 · 1 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

   Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff

   Colm Tóibín joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Tóibín, who is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet, has won the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. He has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the novels “Brooklyn” and “The Magician,” and the story collections “The Empty Family” and “The News from Dublin.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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   E2 · 1 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

   Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman

   Min Jin Lee joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. A recipient of the Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence, Lee is the author of three novels: “Free Food for Millionaires;” “Pachinko;” which was a finalist for the National Book Award, in 2017, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, in 2018; and “American Hagwon,” which was excerpted in The New Yorker and will be published in September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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   E1 · 1 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

   Mohsin Hamid Reads Haruki Murakami

   Mohsin Hamid joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Man-Eating Cats,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hamid is the author of five novels, including “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” “Exit West,” a winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and “The Last White Man,” which was published in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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   1 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

   Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane

   Paul Yoon joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Hostel,” by Fiona McFarlane, which was published in The New Yorker in 2024. Yoon was one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” in 2010, and has published five books of fiction, including the novel “Run Me to Earth” and the story collection “The Hive and the Honey,” a winner of the Story Prize. A new novel, “Etna,” will be published in August. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    1 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya

    Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Fugitive,” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Ong is the author of numerous plays and of the novels “The Disinherited” and “Fixer Chao.” “Fixer Chao” was first published in 2001 and will be reissued this July by Outsider Editions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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