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Jan 2022
51m 11s

Kevin Barry Reads V. S. Pritchett

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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Kevin Barry joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Family Man,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Barry is a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the author of six books of fiction, most recently the story collection “That Old Country Music,” which came out in 2020.

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