Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett

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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 the Necklace, by VS Pritchett,

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  which appeared in the New Yorker in February of 1958.

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  It was my sister who started me using the word empty about Nell's gray eyes.

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  It was not the word I would have used myself,

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  but her eyes did make me feel I was going to fall clean through them.

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  The story was chosen by Paul Theroux,

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  whose almost 40 books of fiction include the novel Burma Sahib

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  and the story collection the Vanishing Point,

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  which came out in January.

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  Hi, Paul.

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  Hi, Deborah.

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  So in previous podcasts you've read stories by Jorge Luis Borges and Elizabeth Taylor.

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  What made you decide to read VS Pritchett's story the Necklace Today?

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  I love this story, but also I could say I knew Pritchett when I lived in London.

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  He was a friend of mine.

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  He's much older.

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  Pritchett used to say I'm as old as a century.

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