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Sep 2023
1h 16m

Andrew O’Hagan Reads Donald Antrim

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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Andrew O’Hagan joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “An Actor Prepares,” by Donald Antrim, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. O’Hagan is the author of six novels, including “The Illuminations” and “Mayflies,” which was published in 2020 and won the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize. 
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