Hugo Hamilton Reads “Autobahn”

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🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Hugo Hamilton reads his story “Autobahn,” from the September 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hamilton, a winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, is the author of the memoir “The Speckled People” and ten novels, including “Dublin Palms” and “The Pages.”

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1:04.8	fiction editor at the New Yorker. On this week's episode of the writer's voice
1:08.5	we'll hear Hugo Hamilton read his story, Autobahn, from the 23rd, 2024 issue of the magazine.
1:15.2	Hamilton, a winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, is the author of the memoir The Speckled
1:19.8	People and 10 novels including Dublin Palms and the pages. Now here's Hugo Hamilton.
1:27.0	AutoBom. Autoban.
1:35.0	On the Autoban outside Frankfurt, November, the fields were covered in a thin sheet of snow.
1:43.4	Chunks of grey sludge clung to the wheel guards of trucks.
1:47.6	Tires ripped along the road.
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