David Wright Faladé Reads Madeleine Thien

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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 Lou Reshaping by Madeleine Tian, which appeared in The New Yorker in December of 2021.

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  If I could give you a pill that would change your whole life,

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  let you go back in time and fix things and maybe be a whole other person.

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  Would you take it?

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  Of course.

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  Seriously?

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  All my life, I've wanted to change shapes, change skins.

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  That was my dream when I was your age.

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  The story was chosen by David Wright-Falladay,

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  the author of the novel's Black Cloud Rising and the New Internationals, which came out earlier this year.

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  Hi, David.

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  Hey.

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  So,

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  I know that you and Madeleine Tian were colleagues at the Coleman Center at the New York Public Library a few years ago.

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  Was that what made you think of talking about this story today, or had you been a fan of her work before that?

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  I didn't know Maddie's work before then, and then I remember getting to know her that fall, and then the story came out.

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  I was so happy for her to see the story in the magazine, and then as soon as I read it, I was just awed.

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