Mary Gaitskill Reads John Cheever

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Deborah Treisman
The New Yorker: Fiction | Mar 1, 2017

Mary Gaitskill joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss John Cheever’s “The Five-Forty-Eight,” from a 1954 issue of the magazine.

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