About this episode

Souvankham Thammavongsa joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss a story by Samanta Schweblin.

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

People in this episode

Host: Deborah Treisman

Guest: Souvankham Thammavongsa

Topics covered

• literature
• fiction
• poetry
• translation
• author discussion

Keywords

• Souvankham Thammavongsa
• Samanta Schweblin
• The Size of Things
• fiction
• poetry
• The New Yorker

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The New Yorker

Books & works: The Size of Things, Light, Cluster, How to Pronounce Knife

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