The New Yorker: Fiction
The New Yorker: Fiction
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Colm Toibin Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner
45 minutes Posted Mar 16, 2012 at 10:01 pm.
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Colm Toibin reads Sylvia Townsend Warner's "The Children's Grandmother," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "The Children's Grandmother" was published in the November 25, 1950, issue of The New Yorker and can be found in "Winter in the Air and Other Stories." Colm Toibin's most recent collection of stories is "The Empty Family."