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 O'Macasse by Waikie Wang, which was published in The New Yorker

in June of 2018.

She had heard of these men, especially the Kanye Met on the internet.

She had heard of yellow fever.

She didn't like that it was called yellow fever.

To name a kind of attraction after a disease carried by mosquitoes that killed one out of four

people severely infected, said something about the attraction.

The story was chosen by Gary Steingard, who's the author of five novels, including most recently,

Lake Success and our country friends.

Hi, Gary.

Hi, Deborah, how are you?

All right, thank you for doing this.

Again, in past episodes of the podcast, you read stories and talked about them.

About stories by Andrew Lee and Laurie Moore.

And when we talked last month about doing another taping, you said you wanted to read a story

by a funny immigrant.

Why?

Yeah, I mean, look, funny immigrant stuff is sort of my stick and I love it when someone

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