Sam Lipsyte Reads James Purdy

The New Yorker: Fiction | Aug 1, 2015

Sam Lipsyte joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss James Purdy’s “About Jessie Mae,” from a 1957 issue of the magazine.

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