Lorrie Moore reads Julie Hayden's "Day-Old Baby Rats."
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, Lori Moore chose day Old Baby Rats, a story by Julie Hayden, which was published in the magazine in 1972.
Escaping from the street, she looks up to see where she is.
A mistake.
Her head begins to spin.
Lori Moore's stories have been appearing in the New Yorker for more than 20 years.
Her most recent book is a novel called a Gate at the Stairs.
It's out in hardcover from Knopf and is coming out in paperback in September.
She joins us from a studio in Madison, Wisconsin.
Hi, Lori.
Hi, Debra.
So Julie Hayden died in 1981, and although she worked at the New Yorker for 16 years, the ten stories that she published here seem to have been mostly forgotten.
She had a collection called the lists of the past, which is long out of print.
What made, what did you think of reading this story?
I had first read this story as.
A college student when it was part of an anthology that had been assigned in an english course that I was taking.
And that anthology was Susan Cahill's women in fiction.
And Julie Hayden was, I think, probably the youngest person in the anthology.