Roddy Doyle Reads Lorrie Moore

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Roddy Doyle joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Community Life," by Lorrie Moore, from a 1991 issue of the magazine. Doyle is the author of two story collections - "The Deportees and Other Stories" and "Bullfighting" - as well as eleven novels for adults, including "Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha," which won the Booker Prize in 1993, and eight children's books. His most recent novel, "Smile," was published in 2017.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:07.8	I'm Deborah Treesman, Fiction Editor at the New Yorker.
0:11.2	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and
0:14.9	discuss.
0:16.4	This month we're going to hear Community Life by Laurie Moore, which was published in
0:20.4	the New Yorker in September of 1991.
0:23.2	Vermont, she said.
0:25.4	Vermont nick-exclaimed, as if it were exotic, which made her glad she hadn't said something
0:30.2	like Transylvania.
0:32.7	He leaned towards her, confidentially.
0:35.2	I have to tell you, I own one chair from Ethan Allen.
0:40.3	The story was chosen by Roddy Doyle, whose novels include the commitments a star called
0:44.6	Henry and Smile, which was published last year.
0:48.4	Hi, Roddy.
0:49.4	Hello.
0:50.4	Last time you came on the podcast, we talked about a story by Maeve Brennan called Christmas
0:55.6	Eve.
0:56.6	What made you think of reading a story by Laurie Moore this time around?
1:00.1	Well, she's such a great writer.
1:02.7	I'm not sure exactly why her name popped into my head first, but I think actually as well
1:09.6	what appealed to me was reading a story by a woman.
1:12.2	A few years ago, myself and Laurie exchanged emails with links to songs, for example, written
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