Tommy Orange Reads "The State"

Deborah Treisman

The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | Mar 20, 2018

Tommy Orange reads his story “The State,” from the March 26, 2018, issue of the magazine. Orange is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Orange will publish his first novel, "There There," from which this story was adapted in June. This is his first piece of fiction in the magazine.

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