The New Yorker: Fiction

Rachel Kushner Reads Edna O’Brien

Jun 1, 2022

01:06:02

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Is There a Difference Between Persistence and Desire?

02:17

Is There a Difference Between Merry's Story and Everyone's?

03:25

Women's Pleasure by Edna O'Brien, Come Into the Drawing Room

03:28

Introduction

3min

The Hallmarks of a Writer

2min

Women's Pleasure by Edna O'Brien, Come Into the Drawing Room

3min

The Road Turned and Curled With It

1min

A Stranger's View of the Village

4min

Missus Rogers and Mary, a Laughter in the Kitchen

5min

Do You Remember?

2min

The Last of the Cider

2min

Sweet Mary, He Had Said He Never Wrote

5min

10.

Is That Your Brother?

3min

11.

O'Toole, O'toole, and Hicky, and Brogan, and Cristel, and Rogers, and the Bishop's House, and All the Other Things.

4min

12.

Long John Salmon, Ah God

3min

13.

Missus Rogers and the O'Tooles Slept in the Bedroom

6min

14.

Mary, Mother of God, Help Me in My Tribute

4min

15.

Come Into the Drawing Room, Doris, by Edna O'Brien

3min

16.

I've Never Read a Book Like This Before, but I Like It

3min

17.

Is There a Prince Charming in the Book?

2min

18.

Is There a Difference Between Persistence and Desire?

2min

19.

Is There a Difference Between Merry's Story and Everyone's?

3min

20.

Is It Too Soon to Leave?

2min

21.

The End Is Not a Fairy Tale Ending

4min

Rachel Kushner joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Come Into the Drawing Room, Doris,” by Edna O’Brien, which was published in The New Yorker in 1962. Kushner is the author of three novels and most recently the essay collection “The Hard Crowd,” which was published last year.

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