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

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

Last month, in honor of the 10th anniversary of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast,

we asked you to vote for your favorite episode from our first 10 years.

What amazed us was that out of more than 120 episodes,

71 different podcasts got at least one vote,

and most of them got many more than that.

The final winner was an episode from 2012,

in which David Sederis read and discussed the story Royce Bivy by Miranda July.

A great selection, and we're happy to re-release the episode now.

Thank you to everyone who voted and thank you to all of our listeners

for making this podcast such a rewarding thing to work on.

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

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 Royce Bivy by Miranda July.

He slept for the first hour, and it was startling to see such a famous face

look so vulnerable and empty.

The story was chosen by David Sederis,

whose personal essays and humor pieces have been appearing in the New Yorker for nearly two decades.

He's published eight books, including Me Talk Pretty One Day,

Dressed Your Family in Quarter Roy in Denham,

and When You Are In Gulfed in Flames.

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