Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett

Paul Theroux joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace (newyorker.com/magazine/1958/02/15/the-necklace),” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1958. Theroux’s nonfiction books include “The Great Railway Bazaar (amazon.com/Great-Railway-Bazaar-Train-Through/…)” and “On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey (amazon.com/Plain-Snakes-Mexican-Journey/dp/054…).” A winner of the James Tait Black Award and the Whitbread Prize, he has published thirty-nine books of fiction, including the novels “The Mosquito Coast (amazon.com/Mosquito-Coast-Paul-Theroux/dp/0618…)” and “Burma Sahib (amazon.com/Burma-Sahib-Novel-Paul-Theroux/dp/0…)” and the story collections “Mr. Bones (amazon.com/Mr-Bones-Stories-Paul-Theroux/dp/05…)” and “The Vanishing Point (amazon.com/Vanishing-Point-Stories-Paul-Therou…),” which came out earlier this year. He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1979.

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