David Wright Faladé Reads Madeleine Thien / The New Yorker: Fiction

David Wright Faladé joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Lu, Reshaping,” by Madeleine Thien, which was published in The New Yorker in 2021. Falade is the author of the novels “Black Cloud Rising” and “The New Internationals,” and the nonfiction work “Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers.” He’s been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2020.

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Miriam Toews Reads Raymond Carver

Miriam Toews joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Elephant ,” by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1986. Toews has published ten books, including the novels “A Complicated Kindness ,” which won the Governor...

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Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace

Adam Levin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Backbone ,” by David Foster Wallace, which was published in The New Yorker in 2011. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of the...

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Karen Russell Reads Louise Erdrich

Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Stone ,” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections “Vampires in the...

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