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Sherman Alexie joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Where I'm Calling From," by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1982. Alexie is the author of nineteen books of fiction and poetry, including "Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories" and the novel "Flight."

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