A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

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Deborah Treisman
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | Jul 21, 2020

A.M. Homes joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” in this 2008 episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast. The story was originally published in 1948 and is included in the July 27, 2020, issue of The New Yorker—a bonus issue made up of pieces from the magazine’s archive on the subject of American dissent.

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