The New Yorker: Fiction

Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace

November 1, 2025·1h 6m
Episode Description from the Publisher

Adam Levin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Backbone,” by David Foster Wallace, which was published in The New Yorker in 2011. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of the story collection “Hot Pink” and the novels “The Instructions,” “Bubblegum,” and “Mount Chicago.” dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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