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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 Cat, by Margaret Atwood, which appeared in the New Yorker in March of 1990.
The story was chosen by Jennifer Egan, whose published self seven books of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize winning A Visit from the Goon Squad and most recently, the Candy House.
Hi, Jenny.
Hi, Deborah.
So on past episodes of the fiction podcast, you read stories by Laurie Siegel and Mary Gaitskill, and today you chose Margaret Atwood.
Why was that?
Well, I like picking stories that I actually haven't looked at in a really long time but have stayed with me in some way.
And I actually hadn't read Cat since the 90s, so I think part of it was just a wish to revisit it.
And then once I did, in some ways, it's really a story about a changing era, and yet its own era now feels way in the distance for all kinds of reasons.
So as a cultural and personal artifact, it felt really fascinating to me.