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EPISODE · Jul 1, 2025 · 50 MIN

Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin

from The New Yorker: Fiction · host The New Yorker

Souvankham Thammavongsa joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Size of Things,” by Samanta Schweblin (translated, from the Spanish, by Megan McDowell), which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian writer. Her publications include the poetry collections “Light” and “Cluster” and the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the Giller Prize in 2020. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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