Nathan Englander Reads Chris Adrian

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  This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.

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  I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.

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  Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.

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  This month, we're going to hear every night for 1000 years by Chris Adrian, which appeared in the New Yorker in October of 1997.

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  All the worst cases went to Union Square Hospital because it was closest to the train station.

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  He went with them and kept up the service he'd begun at Falmouth, visiting, talking, reading, fetching, and helping.

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  Months passed.

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  The story was chosen by Nathan Englander, who's the author of five books of fiction, including the novel Caddish.com and the story collection, what we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013.

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  Hi, Nathan.

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  Hi, Debra.

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  Welcome.

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  I know that you and Chris Adrian were in the Iowa writing program together ago.

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  This story came out in 1997.

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  Did you know each other then?

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  Yes.

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  There's a million reasons I chose this story for now, like, you know, empathic and political and personal and just the poetry of it.

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  But it's years that you mark, like, basically, you know, 25 years from my first book, and maybe 26 from Chris's are also 25.

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  But I was just thinking about how we all started out.

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  So, yes, Chris was a second year.

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  When I was a first year, I knew Chris and, you know, fell in love with him.

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