Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads 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

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Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin is an episode from The New Yorker: Fiction by The New Yorker.

This episode is 48:30 long.

This episode was published on Jul 1, 2025.

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