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

I'm Debra Treesman, Fiction Editor at the New Yorker.

Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read

and discuss.

This month we're going to hear coming soon by Stephen Millhouser, which was published

in the New Yorker in December of 2013.

His leavenson stepped onto his front walk and he noticed with surprise the Masowski's

house across the street, in a longer and stretched out on both sides almost into the property

lines.

When he turned right and set off her town, he saw the house of his neighbors and the sandlers

with stucco instead of white shingle.

It all must have happened while he was away.

The story was chosen by Changray Lee, whose sixth novel, My Year of Broad, will be published

in February.

Hi, Changray.

Hi, Debra.

Thank you for doing this again.

It's been a while, but it's my pleasure.

Last time you were on the podcast, you chose a story by Don Delilo and this time Stephen

Millhouser.

And I feel as though both of those writers, it's not that they're similar in style, but

they both tend to have a sort of conceptual nugget that they build the fiction around.

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