BONUS: 2020 Booker Prize Winner - Douglas Stuart

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BONUS: 2020 Booker Prize Winner - Douglas Stuart

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Nov 27, 2020

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In this special bonus episode, the TLS's fiction editor Toby Lichtig talks to Douglas Stuart about his 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain
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