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Aug 2018
56m 51s

Lydia Millet on 'Fight No More'

The New York Times
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Millet discusses her new collection of stories, and Alexandra Jacobs talks about Jamie Bernstein’s “Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein.” 
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