David Sedaris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter,” by George Saunders, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Sedaris is the author of more than a dozen books of essays, memoirs, and diaries, including, most recently, “A Carnival of Snackery” and “Happy-Go-Lucky.”
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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 love Letter by George Saunders, which appeared in the New Yorker in April of 2020.
I just want to say that history, when it arrives, may not look as you expect based on the reading of history books, things in there are only so clear.
One knows exactly what one would have done.
The story was chosen by David Sedaris, who's the author of more than a dozen books of essays, memoirs and diaries, including most recently, a Carnival of Snackery and Happy go lucky.
Hi, David.
Hi, Deborah.
Welcome back.
Thank you for having me.