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

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

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

Today we'll hear a story chosen by Louise Erdrich, Dance in America, by Laurie Moore.

The house, truth be told, is a shock.

Maple seedlings have sprouted up through the dining room floorboards

from where a tree outside is pushed into the foundation.

Louise Erdrich is a poet, novelist and short story writer,

who has been contributing to the New Yorker since the late 1980s.

In fact, both Laurie Moore and Louise Erdrich first appeared in the magazine in 1989.

She joins me now from the studios of Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul.

Hi Louise.

Hi Debra, how are you?

I'm dead.

So Laurie is obviously a contemporary of yours.

She's not a historical figure from way back in our archives.

Have you been reading her work for a long time?

Oh, I have.

I think the first time I read Laurie Moore was who will run the frog hospital.

And I loved that novel so much.

I didn't realize she wrote short stories and went back.

And then I've been one of her biggest fans ever since.

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