Lara Vapnyar's guest appearances

Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

The Avid Reader Show

Weike Wang

Edwidge Danticat

Matthew Klam

Rachel Kushner

Elizabeth Strout

Karen Russell

Will Mackin

Lauren Groff

Kate Walbert

Tessa Hadley

Jennifer Egan

George Saunders

Mary Gaitskill

Joshua Ferris

Akhil Sharma

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Weike Wang joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Katania,” by Lara Vapnyar, which appeared in a 2013 issue of the magazine. Wang's first novel, “Chemistry,” won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018.

Weike Wang joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/14/katania" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Katania</a>,” by Lara Vapnyar, which appeared in a 2013 issue of the magazine. Wang's first novel, “Chemistry,” won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018.

Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar


Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Deaf and Blind” from the April 24, 2017, issue of the magazine. 

Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Deaf and Blind” from the April 24, 2017, issue of the magazine.

Lara Vapnyar Reads “Deaf and Blind”


The Avid Reader interviews Lara Vapnyar author of The Scent of PinesThroughout her acclaimed, award-winning career, novelist Lara Vapnyar has consistently impressed critics with her striking honesty, empathy, and humor—yet never before have Vapnyar’s talents been as perfectly matched or shone as brightly as in her captivating latest novel, The Scent of Pine.Though Lena is only thirty-eight, she finds herself in the grip of a midlife crisis. She feels out of place in her adoptive country, her career has stalled, and her marriage has tumbled into a spiral of apathy and distrust—it seems impossible she will ever find happiness again. But then she meets Ben, a failed artist turned reluctant academic, who is just as lost as she is. They strike up a precarious friendship and soon surprise themselves by embarking on an impulsive weekend adventure.

The Avid Reader interviews Lara Vapnyar author of The Scent of Pines Throughout her acclaimed, award-winning career, novelist Lara Vapnyar has consistently impressed critics with her striking honesty, empathy, and humor—yet never before have Vapnyar’s talents been as perfectly matched or shone as brightly as in her captivating latest novel, The Scent of Pine. Though Lena is only thirty-eight, she finds herself in the grip of a midlife crisis. She feels out of place in her adoptive country, her career has stalled, and her marriage has tumbled into a spiral of apathy and distrust—it seems impossible she will ever find happiness again. But then she meets Ben, a failed artist turned reluctant academic, who is just as lost as she is. They strike up a precarious friendship and soon surprise themselves by embarking on an impulsive weekend adventure.

Lara Vapnyar author of The Scent of Pine