Margaret Atwood Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Atwood joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Corrie," by Alice Munro, from a 2010 issue of the magazine. Atwood is the author of numerous collections of poetry, stories, and novels, including "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Blind Assassin," which won the Booker Prize in 2000, and "Stone Mattress." A winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and the Governor General's Award, among others, she will publish "The Testaments," a sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale," in September.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:06.3	I'm Deb Retriceman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:09.7	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and
0:13.6	discuss.
0:15.1	This month we're going to hear Corey by Alice Monroe, which was published in The New Yorker
0:19.5	in October of 2010.
0:22.0	Corey was right across the table looking their guest in the eye.
0:26.0	She seemed to think this was funny.
0:28.7	There's Schinger Mary here of other continued.
0:31.2	She's 25.
0:33.0	Corey raised her eyebrows made a face.
0:36.4	You missed a hear, she said.
0:38.2	26.
0:39.6	The story was chosen by Margaret Atwood, who is the author of 18 novels, including The Testaments,
0:45.0	a sequel to her 1985 book, The Handmaid's Tale, which will be published in September.
0:51.4	Hi, Margaret.
0:53.0	Hello, Deborah.
0:54.8	Thank you for coming back.
0:57.1	Now, the last time that you were on the podcast, you read a story by another fellow Canadian
1:02.6	Mavis Galant.
1:04.4	And the answer may seem obvious, but why did you choose to talk about Alice Monroe this
1:08.2	time?
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