Tessa Hadley Reads John McGahern

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Tessa Hadley in a navy blazer white shirt and red necklace standing in front of tree.
Photograph by Sophie Davidson

Tessa Hadley joins Deborah Treisman to read “Gold Watch,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1980. Hadley has published thirteen books of fiction, including the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral,” and the novella “The Party.” She won a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction in 2016.