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Roddy Doyle Reads Maeve Brennan

The New Yorker: Fiction·Dec 12, 2008·31:02·pending

About this Episode

Roddy Doyle reads Maeve Brennan's short story "Christmas Eve," and discusses Brennan's relationship with Ireland and Doyle's own family, with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

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