The New Yorker: Fiction

Kevin Barry Reads V. S. Pritchett

Jan 1, 2022

51:11

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Is She Only Unique When She's With People Who Are Married?

01:39

I've Come Troit, and I Could Save Him

01:46

The Story of Baronice and Mister Cork

01:44

Introduction

2min

I'm Glad He's Back, but It's Never Too Late

2min

A Family Man by v S Pritchett

6min

Miss Cork's Flute, a Floss in the Air

3min

Is Your Wife Beautiful?

5min

I Am Longing for the Necklace

6min

Aren't Men Extraordinary?

5min

'It's a Bit Pushy,' Said Missus Cork, and He Left.

2min

A Family Man by v S Pritchett

2min

10.

The Story of Baronice and Mister Cork

2min

11.

Is She Only Unique When She's With People Who Are Married?

2min

12.

The Man Who Is Beautiful - A Novel Review

2min

13.

Is Mister Cark Playing the Flute in Every N in London at This Point?

2min

14.

The Rogue's Coming Up the Spot

2min

15.

I've Come Troit, and I Could Save Him

2min

16.

Prichard's Story Writing

2min

17.

I Think Missus Cork Comes Out the Better of It

3min

18.

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast

2min

Kevin Barry joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Family Man,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Barry is a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the author of six books of fiction, most recently the story collection “That Old Country Music,” which came out in 2020.

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