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Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner

Elif Batuman joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Truth and Fiction,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, which was published in The New Yorker in 1961. Batuman is the author of one book of nonfiction, “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,” and two novels, “The Idiot” and “Either/Or,” which was published earlier this year. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010.

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  Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan

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  Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads Roberto Bolaño

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  Rivka Galchen Reads Aleksandar Hemon

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  Teju Cole Reads Anne Carson

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  Margaret Atwood Reads Mavis Gallant, Live

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  Lucinda Rosenfeld Reads Annie Ernaux

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  Andrew O’Hagan Reads Donald Antrim

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  David Means Reads Lorrie Moore

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  George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan

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  Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means

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  Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

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  Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

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  Introducing: “In The Dark”

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  Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan

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  Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro