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

I'm Deborah 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 three days by Samantha Hunt, which was published in the New Yorker in January of 2006.

The farm is known island in a sea of big chain stores.

While the surrounding farms were plowed under one by one and turned into shopping centers, her parents had stood by.

They had waited rather than selling their land as the neighbors all had.

And now along a 10 mile strip of parking lots, stores, gas stations, banks and supermarkets, their farm is the last one left.

The story was chosen by David Gilbert, who's the author of two novels and sons and the normals.

Hi David.

Hi Deborah.

Welcome back.

It's great to be back.

So three days came out in 2006 more than 14 years ago, but you told me that you think about it at least once a month.

I do think about this story.

I mean, I love Samantha Hunt's writing so much.

And all of her stories tend to kind of sink into me and remain in my body because she's such a visceral physical writer.

And this story in particular has always stayed with me and the feeling of the story will just kind of percolate in strange moments.

And sometimes I'll have that feeling where I'm like, I don't know where that feeling is coming from.

They'll be like, oh yeah, that's right. That's that's a three days Samantha Hunt feeling.

What do you think without giving too much away? What do you think is driving that feeling?

Well, I think it's her writing in general, which to me just gets under the skin in a really interesting way that I don't see done very often in writing.

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