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The New Yorker Radio Hour

Episode 43: Summer in the City

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.26.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, F. Murray Abraham reads Arthur Miller’s essay about the sweltering summers of Miller’s youth; two writers talk fish and fiction; and a novelist recalls her childhood in idyllic Hong Kong.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revelation

0:11.3

like the phrase it's making the shirt.

0:14.1

Packer seems to be interested in that.

0:17.2

John McPhee has brought this up.

0:19.4

From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour,

0:24.1

a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

0:29.0

All right.

0:34.3

So this is why they're eating the rubber legs.

0:38.3

Oh boy.

0:39.3

Nocturnal stoneflies are rolling all over the river.

0:42.3

Yeah.

0:43.3

Wow. You'd think they'd, uh, think they'd eat dries, wouldn't you?

0:48.3

You'd think. Maybe they will.

0:52.3

We'll try it for a little bit.'ll try it dry with the nymph below it

0:55.8

okay I'm going to put this in real quick

0:57.9

and

0:58.1

this is going to be fun

1:03.4

this week's show comes with a warning

1:05.8

if a beautiful afternoon

1:07.9

on a beautiful river sounds good to you

1:10.0

it just might make you jealous.

1:13.1

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, and I'm David Remnick.

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