Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin

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Jul 1, 202548:30Arts

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. Thammavong...

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