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The John Updike Audio Collection

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The Best American Short Stories 2022

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Classic Short Stories: From the Great Storywriters of the World

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The William Hurt Collection

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Tales of Betrayal

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The Best American Short Stories 2020

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Train Dreams and Jesus' Son

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Beautiful Days: Stories

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The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction

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Essential Welty: Powerhouse and Petrified Man

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Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories

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I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories

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Short Stories: The Brilliant Wit of Katherine Mansfield

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Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land

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The Accomplished Guest: Stories

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The Ponder Heart

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Fresh Air: Writers Speak: Terry Gross Interviews 13 Acclaimed Writers

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Sorry For Your Trouble: Stories

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The Grass Harp

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Train Dreams: A Novella

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Behaving Badly

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The Best American Short Stories

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The State We're In: Maine Stories

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The Liar's Wife: Four Novellas

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Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers

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The John Cheever Audio Collection

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Your Lover Just Called: A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection

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Dangerous Laughter

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The Chaste Clarissa

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The Top 10 Short Stories - D H Lawrence: The top ten Short Stories written by DH Lawrence

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Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

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Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond

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The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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Timeless Classics

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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

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MatchUp

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The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths: The Best New Original Stories of the Genre

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Dark Screams: Volume One

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FaceOff

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Humour - A Short Story Collection

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Stories from Suffragette City

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Kink: Stories

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A Vintage Christmas: A Collection of Classic Stories and Poems

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Greatest Short Stories of All Time

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Behaving Badly

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Anonymous Sex

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The Best American Short Stories 2021

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Dangerous Women: Original Stories from Today's Greatest Suspense Writers

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The House of Love and Death

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Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank

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Flight or Fright

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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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The Perfect Crime

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The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction

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Howls From the Dark Ages: An Anthology of Medieval Horror

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Ghost Stories

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A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii

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The Whisperer In Darkness

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Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women

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San Diego Noir

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Lorrie Moore : Bark: Harper’s Magazine may have said it best when describing today’s guest, Lorrie Moore: “Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie...

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Episode 25: Susan Orlean: Susan Orlean, staff writer at The New Yorker. Show notes: @susanorlean Orlean on Longform Interview Transcript The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People (Amazon) "Orchid Fever" (New Yorker • 1995) "Meet the Shaggs" (N

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Joyce Carol Oates and Gore Vidal: Words Become Me: This is a story about two of the greatest and most prolific writers in post-WWII America, who grew up in dramatically different circumstances. Joyce Carol Oates was a hardworking farm girl from a small rural town. Gore Vidal was born into an elite political family. She is earnest, introspective & soft-spoken. He was supremely confident, sharp-tongued & provocative. Her novels (including Them, We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde) are often about families and their struggles. His novels (including Myra Breckinridge, Burr, Lincoln) were more commonly about historical figures. Both were recognized with a National Book Award. They talk here about their lives and their approaches to literature. The contrasts are stunning!

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342 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (with Laura Marsh)

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George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan: George Saunders joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “So Late in the Day,” by Claire Keegan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Saunders is the author of the novel “Lincoln in the Bardo,” and five story collections, including “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day,” which came out last year.

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A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam: John and Andy are joined by Laura Cumming, the ar…

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Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro: Clare Sestanovich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Moons of Jupiter” by Alice Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1978. Sestanovich’s story collection, “Objects of Desire,” was published in 2021.

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Téa Obreht Reads Thomas McGuane: Téa Obreht joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Gallatin Canyon,” by Thomas McGuane, which appeared in a 2003 issue of the magazine. Obreht is the author of two novels, “The Tiger's Wife” and “Inland.”

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Emma Cline Reads “The Iceman”: Emma Cline reads her story “The Iceman,” from the August 23, 2021, issue of the magazine. Cline’s first novel, “The Girls,” a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, came out in 2016, and her story collection, “Daddy,” was published last year.

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ABC: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Critics Christina Cauterucci, Mark Harris, and Katy Waldman discuss Lucia Berlin's dazzling short story collection. Slate's Audio Book Club is brought to you by Audible.com, with more than 180,000 audiobooks and spoken-word audio products. Get a free 30-

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Anne Enright, author of “The Wren, the Wren”: Anne Enright is the author of eleven novels, including the 2007 Booker Prize winner The Gathering. She’s written many short stories and a non-fiction work called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood. She also served as the first Laureate of Irish fiction from 2015 – 2018. Anne joined Marrie Stone from Galway, Ireland to talk about her latest novel, The Wren, the Wren, forthcoming by Norton later in September. The book has already been named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions and Literary Hub. They talk about poetry – writing poetry as a non-poet and how Anne used it to structure the novel. They discuss the Irish literary tradition (and what national literary traditions really mean). Anne talks about rendering characters from different generations, how her novels are in conversation, and much more. For more information on Writers on Writing and additional writing tips, visit our Patreon page. A big thanks to new patrons

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Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?: This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita of English at Princeton University, to discuss Blake Bailey’s keenly anticipated ‘Philip Roth: The biography’; and Alexandra Harris, the author of ‘Weatherland...

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Nicole Krauss Reads “Shelter”: Nicole Krauss reads her story “Shelter,” which appeared in the October 3, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kruass is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love,” and “Forest Dark.” Her story collection, “To Be a Man,” was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize. 

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George Saunders on ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’: The writer, celebrated for his short stories, discusses his 2017 debut novel, and the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe talks about “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.”

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108. Blood Meridian (or not): Our heroes don't read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

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Joan Silber Reads “Evolution”: Joan Silber reads her story “Evolution,” from the September 12, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, including, most recently, “Secrets of Happiness” and “Improvement,” for which she won the pen/Faulkner Award in 2018.

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Patrick deWitt on THE LIBRARIANIST: “... what is it like to live your life through the books you read?"  The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt is a warm, introspective novel about a retired librarian who lives his life surrounded by books, and the impact he has on those around him....

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32 The Best Debut Novels of All Time (A Conversation with the President of the Literature Supporters’ Club): What makes a great first novel? Which do we prefer: the freshness of a new style (even if it contains mistakes), or the demonstration of competence (even if it breaks no new ground)? Does it matter if the book is the best (or only) novel by that author...

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The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellion: W.N.P Barbellion's The Journal of a Disappointed …

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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means: Ottessa Moshfegh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,” by David Means, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Moshfegh is the author of four novels, including “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” and “Lapvona.”

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115 The Genius of Alice Munro: She was born Alice Ann Laidlaw on July 10, 1931, in a small town called Wingham Ontario, the daughter of a mink farmer and a schoolteacher. Eighty years later, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Anne Tyler, writer: Anne Tyler, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.

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Caite Dolan-Leach on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM: Caite Dolan-Leach joins Marrie Stone to talk about her latest novel, We Went to the Woods. She shares her draw to her childhood home as setting, her research methods, the myriad blind paths her narrator led her down, and her methods for unlocking characte

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Viet Thanh Nguyen : The Committed: Today’s guest, Viet Thanh Nguyen, returns to Between the Covers after six years to discuss The Committed, his much-anticipated follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer. The second book in this trilogy finds our protagonist in the F...

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Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs”: Joshua Ferris reads his story “The Boy Upstairs,” from the June 6, 2022, issue of the magazine. Ferris is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” which won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2014, and “A Cal

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Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan

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Billy-Ray Belcourt : A Minor Chorus: Poet Billy-Ray Belcourt has already transformed the memoir form, remaking it—strange, fresh and new, in A History of My Brief Body. He does something similarly unexpected with his first novel, A Minor Chorus. Deeply aware of the history of the novel,

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George Saunders Reads “Love Letter”: George Saunders reads his story from the April 6, 2020, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Man Booker prize in 2017 for his novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of four story collections, including “In Persuasion Nation” and “Tenth of Dec

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Deborah Levy & Stephen Grosz: August Blue

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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads “Invisible Bird”: Claire-Louise Bennett reads her story “Invisible Bird,” from the May 30, 2022, issue of the magazine. Bennett is the author of the short-story collection “Pond” and the novel “Checkout 19,” which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.