Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick

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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 Faithful by Elizabeth Hardwick,

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  which appeared in the New Yorker in February of 1979.

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  In Amsterdam, we knew many people.

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  and not a single one has slipped from memory.

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  Just now, dreaming, I am drawn back to a woman painter named Simone,

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  and to her fervent romancer, the eternal husband,

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  Dr. Z. The story was chosen by Lauren Groff, who's published seven books of fiction,

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  including the story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida,

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  which won the Story Prize in 2018.

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  Hi, Lauren.

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  Hi, Debra.

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  So the story you're reading today, The Faithful, became a chapter of Elizabeth Hardwick's novel,

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  Sleepless Nights, which was published later the same year, in 1979.

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  You told me that you've read that book 15 times.

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  At least.

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  And no, I just read it again yesterday.

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  The whole book?

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