Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri / The New Yorker: Fiction

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.

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Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortázar

Valeria Luiselli joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Night Face Up ,” by Julio Cortázar, which was published in The New Yorker in 1967. Luiselli is the author of five books, including the nonfiction book “Tell Me How It Ends: An...

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Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads Peter Taylor

Daniyal Mueenuddin joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Two Pilgrims ,” by Peter Taylor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1963. Mueenuddin is the author of the novel “This Is Where the Serpent Lives ,” which was published in...

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Tessa Hadley Reads John McGahern

Tessa Hadley joins Deborah Treisman to read “Gold Watch ,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1980. Hadley has published thirteen books of fiction, including the story collections “Bad Dreams ” and “After the...

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