The New Yorker: Fiction · The New Yorker
Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan
March 7, 2023·1 hr 14 min·5 clips
Claire-Louise Bennett reveals how Maeve Brennan uncovers the simmering horror within ordinary domestic spaces.
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A taut Brennan reading about marriage, fear, and the narrow walls a life can build around itself.
Claire-Louise Bennett's turn on The New Yorker: Fiction is built around Maeve Brennan's "Family Walls," first published in the magazine in March 1973.
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