Margaret Atwood joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Varieties of Exile,” by Mavis Gallant, which was published in The New Yorker in 1976. Atwood is the author of more than forty books of poetry and fiction, including the novels “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments” and the story collection “Old Babes in the Wood,” which was published earlier this year. This is the first episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast to be recorded in front of a live audience. It was taped at the Hot Docs podcast festival, in Toronto, on October 21, 2023.
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Lucinda Rosenfeld Reads Annie Ernaux
Andrew O’Hagan Reads Donald Antrim
David Means Reads Lorrie Moore
George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan
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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan
Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro
Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang
Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss
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