Kirstin Valdez Quade Reads John L'Heureux

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Kirstin Valdez Quade joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Long Black Line," by John L'Heureux, from a 2018 issue of the magazine. Quade is the author of the story collection "Night at the Fiestas," which won the National Book Critic Circle's John Leonard Prize and a "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:08.7	I'm Debra Treesman, Fiction Editor at The New Yorker.
0:12.4	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
0:17.5	This month we're going to hear The Long Black Line by John Leroux, which was published
0:22.0	in the New Yorker in May of 2018.
0:24.5	Feelings Father Superior explained are always to be distrusted.
0:28.9	Jesuits are men of the will.
0:31.2	The story was chosen by Kirsten Valdes Quaid, whose first story collection, Night at the Fiesta's,
0:36.6	was published in 2015.
0:39.1	Hi, Kirsten.
0:40.6	Hi, Debra.
0:42.6	John Leroux died last April and I know you were a student of his at Stanford and his
0:48.1	mentorship meant a lot to you.
0:49.6	Can you talk about that a little?
0:52.4	It did mean so much to me.
0:54.8	John's class was, I think the first classroom I walked into in my freshman fall at Stanford.
1:04.2	It was for a freshman seminar on the American Short Story and I'd applied to be in it and was
1:11.6	beyond excited when I showed up that first day.
1:16.5	John was, at that point he was Professor Leroux to me and he was a brilliant teacher,
1:27.6	a stern teacher.
1:29.0	He could be intimidating.
1:30.6	He was witty and just incredibly, incredibly generous to me.
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