New Yorker: Fiction

A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman: Jeffrey Eugenides reads Harold Brodkey's "Spring Fugue"; Aleksandar Hemon discusses Bernard Malamud's "A Summer's Reading"; Mary Gaitskill reads Vladimir Nabokov's "Symbols and Signs"; Hilton Als discusses Jean Stafford and her story "Children Are Bored on Sunday"; T. Coraghessan Boyle reads Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain"; E. L. Doctorow reads John O'Hara's short story "Graven Image"; Jhumpa Lahiri reads the short story "A Day," by William Trevor; Antonya Nelson reads Mavis Gallant's short story "When We Were Nearly Young"; Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Gospel According to Mark"; Nell Freudenberger discusses Grace Paley's short story "Somewhere Else"; George Saunders reads Isaac Babel's "You Must Know Everything"; Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme's "I Bought a Little City"; Edwidge Danticat discusses Junot Diaz's "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)"; Richard Ford reads John Cheever's "Reunion."

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