Douglas Stuart Reads Kevin Barry

<p>Adam Levin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/03/07/backbone"><strong>Backbone</strong></a>,” by David Foster Wallace, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2011. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Libra ... Show More

<p>Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/the-stone"><strong>The Stone</strong></a>,” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction ... Show More

<p>Victor Lodato joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/the-largesse-of-the-sea-maiden"><strong>The Largesse of the Sea Maiden</strong></a>,” by Denis Johnson, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2014. Loda ... Show More

Booker Prize-winning author Douglas Stuart joins us to discuss his new novel, Young Mungo (Grove, April 2), a sophomore effort Kirkus calls “romantic, terrifying, brutal, tender, and, in the end, sneakily hopeful” (starred review). Then our editors join with their reading recomme ... Show More

<p><span>David Baker joins Kevin Young to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1983/06/20/in-passing-3">In Passing</a><span>,” by Stanley Plumly, and his own poem “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/31/six-notes">Six Notes</a><span>.” B ... Show More

<p><span>Clarence Major joins</span><span><span> </span></span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span><span> </span>to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/downpour">Downpour</a><span>,” by Billy Collins, a ... Show More

<p><span>Amanda Gorman joins </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span><span> </span>to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/declaration">Declaration</a><span>,” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “</s ... Show More

<p><span>Aria Aber joins </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span><span> </span>to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/half-light">Half Light</a><span>,” by Frank Bidart, and her own poem “</span><a h ... Show More

<p>Douglas Stuart’s debut novel Shuggie Bain won him The Booker Prize in 2020. </p><p>It centres around an alcoholic single mother and her gay son navigating life on a Glasgow estate and it reflects Douglas’ own troubled upbringing. </p><p>After near homelessness he earned a plac ... Show More

<p>Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Hollow Children,” which appeared in the November 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently “The Sentence” and “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulit ... Show More

<p>Joy Harjo joins<span> </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span> </span>to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/05/23/still-life-with-potatoes-pearls-raw-meat-rhinestones-lard-and-horse-hooves">Still-Life with Po ... Show More

<p><span>Ben Purkert joins</span><span><span> </span></span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span><span> </span>to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/08/24/notes-on-the-reality-of-the-self">Notes on the Realit ... Show More