Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber

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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 Evolution by Joan Silber, which appeared in The New Yorker in September of 2022.

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  I ran away with a boy when I was 16.

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  He was three years older, and I was enormously flattered that he wanted me to run off with him.

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  We didn't say we loved each other.

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  We didn't bring that up, but my lust for him was great and constant.

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  The story was chosen by Sarah Swanian Bynum, who is the author of three books of fiction,

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  including the novel Ms. Hempel Chronicles,

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  a Penn Faulkner Award finalist, and the story collection Likes, which was published in 2020.

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  Hi, Sarah.

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  Hi, Deborah.

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  So you chose to read a story by Joan Silber, who has published 10 books of fiction in the past 45 years or so.

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  Have you read a lot of her work, and what makes it really stand out for you?

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  I love Joan Silber's work, which I first discovered in 2003.

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  When I was reading the O. Henry Prize anthology.

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  And she had a story in it called The High Road.

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  And it was this first-person voice that just leapt out and dazzled me.

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  And I have just been such an admirer of her work ever since then.

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