The New Yorker Radio Hour · 2025-04-08 · 18 min · 2,939 words

The Writer Katie Kitamura on Autonomy, Interpretation, and “Audition”

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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. A co production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Jennifer Wilson is a critic at the New Yorker, but one with a very wide purview. Sure, right about

Digital breakups or finding an apartment. As well as her latest obsession in the world of literature, which at the moment is a new book. by Katie Kidamura. Katie Kinamura's new novel, Audition, is about a middle-aged actress living in New York City. Who meets a much younger man, a playwright.

And the two embark on A kind of undefined relationship. That's mysterious to us as readers. we have to kind of interpret

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