Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace
Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace  
Podcast: The New Yorker: Fiction
Published On: Sat Nov 01 2025
Description: Adam Levin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Backbone,” by David Foster Wallace, which was published in The New Yorker in 2011. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of the story collection “Hot Pink” and the novels “The Instructions,” “Bubblegum,” and “Mount Chicago.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices