Andrew Sean Greer’s “It’s a Summer Day”

Andrew Sean Greer’s “It’s a Summer Day”

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Last week, Andrew Andrew Sean Greer’s novel “Less” won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.  “Less” about a novelist in mid-life named Arthur Less, and his attempt to avoid the wedding of a younger ex-boyfriend by accepting invitations to literary events in other countries.  In 2017, The New Yorker published an excerpt from the book with the title “It’s a Summer Day.” Greer read from the excerpt on the New Yorker’s podcast The Writer’s Voice, which features a short story from the magazine read by the author every week.