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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber
With Deborah Treisman May 1, 2026Save this story Save this story Save this story Save this story Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen
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Photograph by Mara Casey Sarah Shun-lien Bynum joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Evolution,” by Joan Silber, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Bynum is the author of the novels “Madeleine Is Sleeping,” a National Book Award finalist, and “Ms. Hempel Chronicles”—and the story collection “Likes.” She was named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” fiction writers in 2010.
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