Antonya Nelson Reads Tom Drury

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 3 February 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Antonya Nelson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Tom Drury’s “Accident at the Sugar Beet,” from a 1992 issue of the magazine.

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0:00.0	This is The New Yorker Fiction Podcast from The New Yorker Magazine.
0:06.0	I'm Debra Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:08.8	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read
0:12.5	and discuss.
0:14.0	This month we're going to hear Tom Dury's story, accident at the sugar bead, which was
0:18.6	published in The New Yorker in 1992.
0:21.4	I don't know if you've ever watched a spider making a web, said Dan, but I have, Barney,
0:26.3	and it takes a long time, and there's a lot of going back and forth.
0:29.9	And even when this web is done, somebody might come along and destroy it just by their
0:33.8	hat hitting it.
0:34.8	Know what I mean?
0:37.0	The story was chosen by Antonia Nelson, who has been publishing her own stories in the
0:40.9	magazine since 1991.
0:43.3	Her most recent collection, Funny Once, came out last year.
0:48.2	Hi, Tony.
0:49.2	Hi, Debra.
0:50.2	Now, the last time that you were a guest on the podcast a few years ago, you read a story
0:53.5	by Mavis Galant.
0:55.0	And this time you chose a piece by Tom Dury.
0:58.1	Did the two stories have anything in common, besides from the fact that they appeal to your
1:02.8	sensibility?
1:03.8	Kesha, I hadn't thought about that.
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