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<p>Souvankham Thammavongsa joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-size-of-things"><strong>The Size of Things</strong></a>,” by Samanta Schweblin (translated, from the Spanish, by Megan McDowell), which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2017. Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian writer. Her publications include the poetry collections “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Light-Souvankham-Thammavongsa/dp/1897141564"><strong>Light</strong></a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cluster-Souvankham-Thammavongsa/dp/0771070985"><strong>Cluster</strong></a>” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316422134"><strong>How to Pronounce Knife</strong></a>,” which won the Giller Prize in 2020. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in <em>The New Yorker</em> since 2021.</p>
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