Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin

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

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  I'm Debra 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 Size of Things by Samantha Schweblin,

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  translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell,

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  which appeared in the New Yorker in May of 2017.

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  In the display cases, along the aisles, on the shelves,

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  a suddenly shifting rainbow stretched from one end of the store to the other.

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  I still remember that sight as the beginning of disaster.

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  The story was chosen by Suvankum Tamavangsa,

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  who is the author of four poetry collections and the short story collection,

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  How to Pronounce Naif, which was published in 2020.

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  Hi, Suvankum.

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  Hello, Deborah.

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  So when we talked about doing this podcast, you brought up this story.

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  You didn't remember the title of the story or who had written it,

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  but you remembered the story itself very vividly.

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  And I'm wondering what it was that you were remembering.

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  Was it the way the story is written?

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  Was it the details of the plot?

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