David Rabe joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Other Side of the Street,” by John Updike, which appeared in a 1991 issue of the magazine. Rabe, a fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter, is the author of more than a dozen plays, including the Tony Award-winning “Sticks and Bones,” “In the Boom Boom Room,” and “Hurlyburly.” He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theatre Award as a Master American Dramatist in 2014. His novels include “Recital of the Dog” and “Girl by the Road at Night.”
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Rachel Cusk Reads Marguerite Duras
David Bezmozgis Reads Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads Roberto Bolaño
Rivka Galchen Reads Aleksandar Hemon
Teju Cole Reads Anne Carson
Margaret Atwood Reads Mavis Gallant, Live
Lucinda Rosenfeld Reads Annie Ernaux
Andrew O’Hagan Reads Donald Antrim
David Means Reads Lorrie Moore
George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan
Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means
Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett
Introducing: “In The Dark”
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Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss
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