Hilton Als Discusses Jean Stafford

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Hilton Als Discusses Jean Stafford

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May 5, 2008

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Invalid Souls: Hilton Als discusses Jean Stafford and her story "Children Are Bored on Sunday" with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Reading by Eliza Foss.

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May 5, 2008

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