The New Yorker Out Loud

The Dating Game

June 11, 2007

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Each month, a New Yorker fiction writer chooses a story from the magazine’s archives for a New Yorker Out Loud podcast. Here Edwidge Danticat discusses Junot Díaz’s 1995 short story “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)” with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. The podcast includes a reading of the story by Díaz, from the CD “The New Yorker Out Loud, Vol. 2.”

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“How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)” is from Díaz’s short-story collection “Drown” (Riverhead).

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