Aleksandar Hemon Reads ZZ Packer / The New Yorker: Fiction

Aleksandar Hemon joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” by ZZ Packer, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hemon, a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship and a PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, among others, is the author of eight books, including the novels “The Lazarus Project” and “The World and All It Holds,” the story collection “Love and Obstacles,” and two nonfiction works, “The Book of My Lives” and “My Parents: an Introduction.”

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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”...

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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Evolution ,” by Joan Silber, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Bynum is the author of the novels “Madeleine Is Sleeping ,” a National Book Award finalist, and “Ms....

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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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