Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro

February 1, 2023

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Clare Sestanovich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Moons of Jupiter,” by Alice Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1978. Sestanovich’s story collection, “Objects of Desire,” was published in 2021.

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