The New Yorker: Fiction · The New Yorker
Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner
September 1, 2022·1 hr 2 min·5 clips
How did Sylvia Townsend Warner get her elf stories published in The New Yorker against editorial resistance?
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A dry, unsettling Warner story turns one unhappy household into a compact study of pity, power, and comic cruelty.
Elif Batuman's visit to The New Yorker: Fiction returns Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Truth and Fiction" to the air with a nasty little domestic charge.
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