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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Catherine Lacey Reads Lorrie Moore
Catherine Lacey joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People,” by Lorrie Moore, published in The New Yorker in 1993. Lacey, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and a Lambda Literary Award, has published four nov ... Show More
1h 29m
Oct 1
Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff
Colm Tóibín joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Tóibín, who is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet, has won the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Liter ... Show More
1h 3m
Oct 2025
Andrew O'Hagan: Caledonian Road
Andrew O'Hagan is the author of seven novels, as well as being a brilliant journalist. We sat down to discuss his epic novel Caledonian Road, a state-of-the-nation novel about one man’s tragic fall from grace. He’s socially and politically liberal, and feels he’s done everything ... Show More
49m 35s
Mar 2024
Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Time Being”
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “The Time Being” from the March 18, 2024, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, in 2009, and “The Dog.” A new novel, “Godwin,” will ... Show More
36 m
Jul 2018
Booker winner Michael Ondaatje, Shaun Tan, book news, and story time for adults
Booker winner Michael Ondaatje on Warlight, Shaun Tan tackles office life in his book Cicada, book news and the story time for adults with author Jane Rawson.
53m 58s
Jan 2025
Book Club: Let’s Talk About Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’
<p>The novel “Our Evenings,” by Alan Hollinghurst, follows a gay English Burmese actor from childhood into old age as he confronts confusing relationships, his emerging sexuality, racism and England’s changing political climate in the late 20th and early 21st century. It’s the st ... Show More
47m 52s