Gary Shteyngart Reads Lorrie Moore

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2013-07-04

35 分钟
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Gary Shteyngart reads "Paper Losses," by Lorrie Moore.

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  • 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 paper losses by Laurie Moore.

  • They all slept in the same room in separate beds and saw other families squalling and squabbling so that by comparison, theirs, a family about to break apart forever didn't look so bad.

  • The story was chosen by Gary Steingart, whose fiction, journalism and essays have been appearing in the magazine since 2003.

  • His latest novel, which was excerpted in the New Yorker, is super sad.

  • True love story.

  • This is Gary Steingart's second appearance on the fiction podcast.

  • Welcome back, Gary.

  • Hey, good to be back.

  • So the first time you were on in 2008, you chose a story by Andrea Lee, and this time it's a story by Laurie Moore.

  • Are you a fan of Laurie's work in general?

  • Oh, yes.

  • I'm a huge fan.

  • Laurie's work was some of the first work I've ever encountered when I got to college and decided to become a writer.

  • Is that when it happened?

  • That's when it happened.

  • And I realized quite quickly that I could never write short stories like that.

  • And I never really wrote a short story.