The Writer's Voice: Fiction from the Magazine
Ta-Nehisi Coates Reads "Conduction"
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Ta-Nehisi Coates reads his story from the June 10 & 17, 2019, issue of the magazine. Coates is the author of the nonfiction books "The Beautiful Struggle," "We Were Eight Years in Power," and "Between the World and Me," which won the National Book Award, in 2015. His first novel, "The Water Dancer," from which this story is adapted, will be published in September.
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