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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. 

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  Aleksandar Hemon Reads ZZ Packer

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  Louise Erdrich Reads Karen Russell

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  David Sedaris Reads George Saunders

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  Nathan Englander Reads Chris Adrian

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  André Alexis Reads Alice Munro

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  Rachel Cusk Reads Marguerite Duras

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  David Bezmozgis Reads Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

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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