Jonathan Lethem 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 rescue by V.

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  S.

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  Pritchett.

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  Once when I turned round, as I got to the door and caught him looking at me, he dropped five books he had in his hands.

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  There was a noise that made everyone stare, a thrilling noise, like a tire burst.

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  The story was chosen by Jonathan Leatham, whose own fiction has been appearing in the New Yorker since 2003.

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  His latest piece in the magazine, the Gray Goose, was excerpted from his novel Dissident Gardens, which just came out.

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  He joins me from the studios of KSPC at Pomona College in California.

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  Hi, Jonathan.

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  Hi, Debra.

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  How are you?

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  I'm good.

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  So you chose a story by vs.

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  Pritchett today.

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  Can you tell me about your connection to his work and how you first came across it?

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  I'm fairly recent to his work.

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  I had always gathered that he was one of those short story writers like Frank O'Connor or Mavis Gallant, who I would find really elegant and beautiful.

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