2023-01-02
1 小时 7 分钟Gary Shteyngart joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Omakase,” by Weike Wang, which was published in *The New Yorker* in 2018. Shteyngart is the author of five novels including, most recently, “Lake Success” and “Our Country Friends.”
This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.
Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
This month, we're going to hear Omakase by Waiki Wang, which was published in the New Yorker in June of 2018.
She had heard of these men, especially the kind you met on the Internet.
She had heard of yellow fever.
She didn't like that it was called yellow fever.
To name a kind of attraction after a disease carried by mosquitoes that killed one out of four people severely infected said something about the attraction.
The story was chosen by Gary Steingart, who's the author of five novels, including, most recently, Lake Success and our country friends.
Hi, Gary.
Hi, Deborah.
How are you?
All right.
Thank you for doing this again.
In past episodes of the podcast, you read stories and talked about stories by Andrea Lee and Lori Moore.
And when we talked last month about doing another taping, you said you wanted to read a story by a funny immigrant.
Why?
Yeah.
I mean, look, funny immigrant stuff is sort of my schtick, and I love it when someone else does it.
And this is a very dry martini of humor.