The New Yorker: Fiction

Garth Greenwell Reads Jean Stafford

11.01.2019 - By WNYC Studios and The New YorkerPlay

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Garth Greenwell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Shorn Lamb,” by Jean Stafford, which appeared in a 1953 issue of the magazine. Greenwell is a fiction writer, poet, and critic. His first novel, “What Belongs to You,” was published in 2016, and won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year. A new book of fiction, “Cleanness,” will be published in January.

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