Tessa Hadley joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "New York Girl," by John Updike, from a 1996 issue of the magazine. Hadley is the author of nine books of fiction, including the story collection "Bad Dreams and Other Stories," which was published last year. She won the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction in 2016 and has been publishing in The New Yorker since 2002.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Yiyun Li
Lauren Groff Reads Shirley Hazzard
Matthew Klam Reads John Updike
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads Tessa Hadley
Akhil Sharma Reads Jeffrey Eugenides
Gabe Hudson Reads Robert Coover
Colm Tóibín Reads Mary Lavin
Rachel Kushner Reads Thom Jones
Salman Rushdie Reads Italo Calvino
Mary Gaitskill Reads John Cheever
Junot Díaz Reads Edwidge Danticat
Richard Powers Reads Steven Millhauser
David Means Reads Sherman Alexie
Ben Marcus Reads Mary Gaitskill
Karen Russell Reads Mavis Gallant
Annie Proulx Reads J. F. Powers
Alice Mattison Reads Lore Segal
Ben Lerner Reads John Berger
Karl Ove Knausgaard Reads V. S. Naipaul
Dana Spiotta Reads Joy Williams
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