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A. M. Homes reads Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

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“The Lottery” was published in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, and is collected in the book “The Lottery and Other Stories,” with an introduction by Homes.

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