(19 mins) Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber’s short story “The Wood Duck”
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THE NEW YORKER   Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber’s short story “The Wood Duck” and discusses Thurber with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. “The Wood Duck” was published in The New Yorker in November, 1936, and is collected in “The Thurber Carnival.”   [audio http://downloads.newyorker.com/mp3/fiction/080310_fiction_lethem.mp3]   Advertisements
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