This is the writer's voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.

I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Emma Klein read her story, White Noise,

from the June 8th and 15th 2020 issue of the magazine.

Klein's first novel, The Girls,

winner of the Shirley Jackson Award,

came out in 2016,

and her story collection,

Daddy, will be published later this year.

Now here's Emma Klein.

White noise.

The dreams had mostly stopped.

Still, he found himself awake, blinking in the dark room.

4 a.m.

He lay on moving for a moment under the duvet.

His t-shirt was stuck to his back, night sweats, the pillow swampy,

the sheets damp, rolled to the other side, spread out on the chilly sheets, keep the eyes

closed. As soon as both eyes opened, it would be straight to dull business, an organizer already

laid out with his morning meds, a bottle of room temperature Fiji water

alongside. This time tomorrow, he would know everything. Well, not exactly this time, more like 10 a.m.,

but in any case, all would be decided. He believed truly that he would be exonerated. How could he not be?

This was America. Maybe there was a moment,

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