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Feb 2024
47m 46s

Addie Citchens Reads “That Girl”

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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Addie Citchens reads her story “That Girl,” from the February 12 & 19, 2024, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has published work in the Oxford American and The Paris Review, among other places. 
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