André Alexis Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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André Alexis joins Deborah Treisman for a special tribute to Alice Munro, who died in May at age ninety-two. Alexis reads and discusses “Before the Change,” by Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1998. Alexis’s works of fiction include “Fifteen Dogs,” which won the Giller Prize, “Days by Moonlight,” and the story collection “The Night Piece,” which was published in 2020.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of Marketplace your daily download on the
0:06.3	economy. Money influences so much of what we do and how we live. That's why it's
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0:23.0	Marketplace is your secret weapon for understanding this economy.
0:26.2	Listen, wherever you get your podcasts. This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:38.0	I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:41.0	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's
0:44.3	archives to read and discuss. In this month's episode, a special tribute to Alice Monroe,
0:49.8	who died in May at age 92, we'll hear Monroe's story before the change, which appeared in the New Yorker in
0:55.9	August of 1998.
0:58.5	How do you think I didn't know?
1:00.5	It was right in front of my eyes all the time.
1:03.0	If I had gone to school here, I'd surely have known.
1:06.0	If I'd had friends.
1:08.0	There's no way one of the high school girls,
1:10.0	one of the older girls wouldn't have made sure I knew.
1:13.6	The story was chosen by Andrea Lexis,
1:15.8	whose works of fiction include the novels 15 Dogs,
1:18.6	which won the Giller Prize and Days by Moonlight,
1:21.7	and the story collection The Night Piece, which was published in 2020.
1:26.8	Hi Andre, welcome.
1:28.5	Hi, dear Brown. I'm glad we could do this. Let's start with why we are here taping a
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