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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Hilton Als Reads James McCourt
Cynthia Ozick Reads Steven Millhauser
Jennifer Egan Reads Lore Segal
David Means Reads Raymond Carver
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads Jamaica Kincaid
Chris Adrian Reads Donald Barthelme
Salvatore Scibona Reads Denis Johnson
Rivka Galchen Reads Leonard Michaels
Monica Ali Reads Joshua Ferris
Chang-Rae Lee Reads Don DeLillo
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Julian Barnes Reads Frank O’Connor
Karen Russell Reads Carson McCullers
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Yiyun Li Reads John McGahern
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