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Mar 16, 2021 • 41min
Imbolo Mbue Reads “The Case for and Against Love Potions”
Imbolo Mbue reads her story from the March 22, 2021, issue of the magazine. Mbue is the author of two novels, “Behold the Dreamers,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and “How Beautiful We Were,” which was published this month.
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Mar 9, 2021 • 37min
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Shape of a Teardrop”
T. Coraghessan Boyle, author of more than two dozen fiction books, reads his story 'The Shape of a Teardrop'. Topics include defiance, journey through infertility, frustrating day at the mall bar, strained family dynamics, courtroom drama, and reflection on relationship and artwork.
Mar 2, 2021 • 35min
Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Crooked House”
Jonathan Lethem reads his story from the March 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of seventeen books of fiction, including the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published last year.
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Feb 23, 2021 • 23min
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Good-Looking”
Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story from the March 1, 2021, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry and the short-story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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Feb 9, 2021 • 45min
Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Casting Shadows”
Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story from the February 15 & 22, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lahiri is the author of two novels and two short-story collections. Her first book, “Interpreter of Maladies,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and she was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal in 2014. Her new novel, “Whereabouts,” from which this story is adapted, was published in Italian in 2018 and will come out in Lahiri’s translation in April.
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Feb 2, 2021 • 15min
Ben Okri Reads “A Wrinkle in the Realm”
Ben Okri reads his story from the February 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Okri is the author of eleven novels, including “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which came out in 2019. His story collection, “Prayer for the Living,” was published in the U.S. this month.
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Jan 26, 2021 • 24min
Lauren Groff Reads “The Wind”
Lauren Groff reads her story from the February 1, 2021, issue of the magazine. Groff has published three novels, including “Arcadia,” in 2012, and “Fates and Furies,” in 2015. Her second story collection, “Florida,” won the Story Prize in 2018.
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Jan 19, 2021 • 30min
Allegra Goodman Reads “A Challenge You Have Overcome”
Allegra Goodman reads her story from the January 25, 2021, issue of the magazine. Goodman’s books include “The Family Markowitz” and “The Chalk Artist.”
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Dec 29, 2020 • 54min
Andrea Lee Reads “The Rivals”
Andrea Lee reads her story from the January 4 & 11, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lee is the author of four books, including the novel “Lost Hearts in Italy” and the story collection “Interesting Women.” A new book, “Red Island House,” will be published in March.
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Dec 15, 2020 • 53min
Rebecca Curtis Reads “The Christmas Miracle”
For a special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice podcast, Rebecca Curtis reads “The Christmas Miracle,” her story from the December 23 & 30, 2013, issue of the magazine. Curtis is the author of the story collection “Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money” and a winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for Fiction.
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