PLAY PODCASTS
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin

Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin

The New Yorker: Fiction

July 1, 202548m 30sExplicit

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (pdrl.fm) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices