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Nov 2022
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Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Childre...

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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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 Pulitzer Prize in 2021. 
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