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Adam Levin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Backbone ,” by David Foster Wallace, which was published in The New Yorker in 2011. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of the story collection “ Hot Pink ” and the novels “ The Instructions ,” “ Bubblegum ,” and “ Mount Chicago .”

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