This week, Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig are guided by Mark Ford through Concord, Massachusetts, the home of Emerson, Thoreau and the Transcendentalists; we talk to Susan Owens about the mystery and melancholy of lighted windows seen from outside; plus, new work from Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith

'The Transcendentalists and their world' by Robert A. Gross

'The Every' by Dave Eggers

'The Wife of Willesden' by Zadie Smith

'The Lighted Window: Evening walks remembered' by Peter Davidson

Produced by Sophia Franklin

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