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 leopard by Wells Tower,

which was published in The New Yorker in November of 2008.

Your hatred of your stepfather is all consuming and unseasing.

But this is only because your world is still small.

And your stepfather assumes an outsized significance in the story of your life.

The story was chosen by David Sederis, who's the author of 10 books,

including Me Talk Pretty One Day, When You're In Gult and Flames,

and Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls.

Hi, David.

Hi, Debra.

So last year, 2017, marked the 10th anniversary of The New Yorker Fiction Podcast.

And we did a listener's choice poll and asked our audience to vote for their favorite episode

from the last decade.

And they chose your podcast of Miranda July's story, Roy Spivey.

Well, that's awfully nice.

I mean, it's a fantastic story.

That's... and that was a podcast from 2012.

Now, other than your genius, of course,

do you think there's a reason that that particular episode hit a nerve with listeners?

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