A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman: Antonya Nelson reads Mavis Gallant's short story "When We Were Nearly Young"; Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Gospel According to Mark"; Nell Freudenberger discusses Grace Paley's short story "Somewhere Else"; George Saunders reads Isaac Babel's "You Must Know Everything"; Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme's "I Bought a Little City";...
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- A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman: Antonya Nelson reads Mavis Gallant's short story "When We Were Nearly Young"; Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Gospel According to Mark"; Nell Freudenberger discusses Grace Paley's short story "Somewhere Else"; George Saunders reads Isaac Babel's "You Must Know Everything"; Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme's "I Bought a Little City"; Edwidge Danticat discusses Junot Diaz's "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)"; Richard Ford reads John Cheever's "Reunion."