This is The Writer's Voice, new fiction from New Yorker, and Debra Treesman, fiction editor

at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Jennifer Egan read her story, What the

Farest Remembers, from the January 3rd and 10th 2022 issue of the magazine.

Jennifer Egan is the author of six books of fiction, including a visit from the Goons

Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, and Manhattan Beach, which won the Andrew

Carnegie Medal in 2018.

A new book, The Candy House, will be published in April.

Now here's Jennifer Egan.

What the Forrest Remembers.

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there was a forest.

It's gone now, burned, and the four men walking in it are gone, too, which is what makes

it far away.

Neither it nor they exist anymore.

But in June 1965, the redwoods have a velvety, primeval look that brings to mind leprechauns

or jins or fairies.

Three of the four men have never been in these ancient woods before, and to them the

forest looks otherworldly, so removed as it, from their everyday vistas of wives and

children and offices.

The oldest, Lou Klein, is only 31, but all were born in the 1930s and raised without antibiotics,

their military service completed before they went to college.

Men of their generation got started on adulthood right away.

...