Rachel Kushner Reads Edna O’Brien

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Deborah Treisman
The New Yorker: Fiction | Jun 1, 2022

Rachel Kushner joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Come Into the Drawing Room, Doris,” by Edna O’Brien, which was published in The New Yorker in 1962. Kushner is the author of three novels and most recently the essay collection “The Hard Crowd,” which was published last year.

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