Thursday, November 29, 2007

New (to me) New Yorker Podcast

I happened on a podcast I am pretty excited about. It is put out by the New Yorker, apparently monthly. In each episode a current New Yorker fiction writer selects and reads a short story from another writer from an earlier era. The stories are mostly from the "golden era" of New Yorker short stories. John Cheever, Mavis Gallant, Jorge Luis Borges, and Donald Barthelme were read in recent editions. Then the writer and fiction editor Deborah Treisman talk for a bit about the story. Pretty simple, but its wonderful.

- J

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