Salman Rushdie Reads Donald Barthelme

from The New Yorker: Fiction · host The New Yorker

Salman Rushdie reads Donald Barthelme's "Concerning the Bodyguard," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "Concerning the Bodyguard" was published in the October 16, 1978, issue of The New Yorker, and was collected in "Forty Stories." Salman Rushdie's most recent book is "Luka and the Fire of Life." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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