Anne Enright Reads John McGahern

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  This is the New Yorker Fiction podcast from the New Yorker Magazine.

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  I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.

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  Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.

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  This month we're going to hear Sierra leone by John McGarren, which appeared in the New Yorker in August of 1977.

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  The story was chosen by Anne Enright, who's the author of three story collections and eight novels,

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  including the Gathering, which won the Man Booker Prize, and the Wren.

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  The Wren.

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  Hi, Anne.

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  Hi, how are you, Deborah?

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  Good.

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  Welcome.

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  Let's start with why you wanted to read a story by John McGaron today.

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  Yeah.

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  John McGachan is a great Irish writer, and if you don't know who he is, he is the Irish writer's Irish writer.

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  He is the one that we all read, argue with, in our heads, admire, approach, you know, get annoyed with the whole.

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  The whole nine yards.

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  He.

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  This story is from 1977, so it's mid.

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  McGahern, his early and his later work is set in the Irish countryside, where he found great solace and difficulty.

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  But this is set in.

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