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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Anne Enright Reads John Cheever
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
Lorrie Moore Reads Julie Hayden
Julian Barnes Reads Frank O’Connor
Karen Russell Reads Carson McCullers
Junot Diaz Reads Edwidge Danticat
Yiyun Li Reads John McGahern
Orhan Pamuk Reads Vladimir Nabokov
Marisa Silver Reads Peter Taylor
Joshua Ferris Reads George Saunders
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