Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan
The New Yorker: Fiction
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Greg Jackson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Safari,” by Jennifer Egan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2010. Jackson has published a story collection, “Prodigals,” and a novel “The Dimension of a Cave,” which was one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023. He has been publishing in the magazine since 2014.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David Remnick, and I'm pleased to share that two New Yorker films have been |
| 0:05.8 | nominated for this year's Academy Awards. No kidding. One of them, The Barber of Little Rock Rock is nominated for Best Documentary Short Film |
| 0:15.8 | and looks at America's growing racial wealth gap through the story of Arlo Washington, |
| 0:21.0 | a barber in Arkansas who is reshaping the future of banking for Black Americans. |
| 0:26.6 | You can watch it and the magazine's full slate of acclaimed short films at New Yorker.com |
| 0:32.1 | slash video. This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker. |
| 0:51.0 | Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's |
| 0:54.4 | archives to read and discuss. This month we're going to hear Safari by Jennifer Egan, |
| 0:59.6 | which appeared in the New Yorker in January of 2010. |
| 1:03.0 | Lou is one of those men whose restless charm has generated a contrail of personal upheaval |
| 1:08.0 | that is practically visible behind him. |
| 1:10.0 | Two-filled marriages and two more kids back home in LA who were too young to bring on this three-week |
| 1:15.6 | safari. |
| 1:17.4 | The story was chosen by Greg Jackson, who's the author of the story collection Prodigals and the novel |
| 1:22.4 | Dimensions of a Cave which came out in |
| 1:24.4 | 2023. |
| 1:26.4 | Hi Greg. |
| 1:27.4 | Hi Deborah. |
| 1:29.4 | Welcome. |
| 1:31.1 | I want to start with Jennifer Egan's work in general. Have you been a long time fan? |
| 1:36.4 | You know I was thinking about this and I actually think this story was the first of her work that I |
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