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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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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