The New Yorker: Fiction

Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sep 1, 2022

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Is There a Moral Quagmire in Fiction Writing?

01:53

What Is the Unknown Ability?

03:22

A Stranger With a Bag

01:35

Introduction

3min

Truth and Fiction by Sylvia Tonsend Warner

4min

The Train Stopped at Yetten Halte

5min

The Door Rotted From Its Hinges

5min

Clive, I Want You to Murder Dad

3min

A Killer Feels Ten Times More Afraid

6min

I'll Get You, I'll Get You!

3min

'Good Night,' Said Clive, a Sigh of Relief

5min

The Manor House, a Case for the Prevention of Cruelty Society

4min

10.

Death, Sex on Money Podcast

2min

11.

Do You Think Townsend Warner Is Just Doing This to Show Us What an Unreliable Representative of His Own Mental State Is?

2min

12.

Are You a Writer?

3min

13.

A Stranger With a Bag

2min

14.

What Is the Unknown Ability?

3min

15.

Is This a Romantic Stranger With a Bag?

1min

16.

The Boy Is Also the Father, Right?

2min

17.

What Is the Ethical Question About Saving the Boy?

2min

18.

Is There a Moral Quagmire in Fiction Writing?

2min

19.

Is There a Moral in the Story?

3min

20.

What if It Wasn't Like That?

2min

21.

The New Yorker Fiction Boodcast

2min

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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