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The New Yorker: Fiction

Lauren Groff Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Yorker, Wnyc, Literature, Books, New, Fiction, Arts

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2011

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Groff reads Alice Munro's "Axis," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "Axis" was published in the January 31, 2011, issue of The New Yorker.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:03.6

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

0:07.0

Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.

0:12.3

This month we're going to hear a recent story,

0:14.7

Access by Alice Monroe, which was published in January.

0:18.8

At first he had made quite an effort to be quiet,

0:22.3

not because he believed in any danger,

0:24.9

but just because he meant to go easy.

0:27.6

Be very gentle with her.

0:30.0

The story was chosen by Lauren Groff,

0:32.3

whose first story in the magazine came out in this year's Summer Fiction issue.

0:36.0

Groff is the author of the story collection Delicate Edible Birds

0:39.4

and the novels The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia,

0:42.4

which is due out next year.

0:44.4

She joins us from WUFT in Gainesville, Florida.

0:48.0

Hi, Lauren.

0:49.0

Hi, Deborah.

0:50.0

So I see that you listed Alice Monroe somewhere as your favorite author.

0:53.6

What is it about her and how did you first start reading her stories?

0:57.5

She's definitely my favorite living author.

0:59.6

I think probably George Eliot's my favorite overall author,

1:03.5

but I love Alice Monroe because she changed my mind about fiction.

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