Award-winning author André Alexis discusses Alice Munro's 'Before the Change' on The New Yorker Fiction podcast, exploring family dynamics, medical procedures, and the complexities of ignorance and knowledge in the narrative. The episode delves into themes of sadness, love, and father-daughter dynamics, highlighting the collaborative editing process with a renowned author and cultural discussions on renowned authors and diverse podcast offerings.

Playwright and fiction writer André Alexis reads 'Consolation,' exploring love, loss, and family dynamics, shifting perceptions, navigating identity and success, an unconventional guest at a dinner party, the complexity of human relationships, and familial love and skepticism in this thought-provoking New Yorker fiction.

André Alexis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Waiting for Death in a Hotel,” by Italo Calvino, translated, from the Italian, by Martin McLaughlin, which was published in The New Yorker in 2006. Alexis’s novels include “Childhood,” “Days by Moonlight,” and “Fifteen Dogs,” which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2015. 2022 © Italo Calvino, performed with permission of The Wylie Agency LLC. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices