Samantha Hunt Reads “A Love Story”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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What’s the scariest sound a person can hear? In a quiet country house where the closest neighbors are pretty far away, the scariest possible sound is a man coughing outside at night.

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0:00.0	This is The Writer's Voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.
0:09.1	I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:12.6	On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Samantha Hunt read her story,
0:16.8	A Love Story, from the May 22nd, 2017 issue of the magazine.
0:22.1	Hunt is the author of the novels The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else, and Mr. Splitfoot.
0:27.7	Her first story collection, The Dark Dark, will be published in July.
0:32.4	Now here's Samantha Hunt.
0:35.2	A love story.
0:38.5	A coyote
0:39.4	ate a three-year-old not far from here.
0:42.2	Yeah?
0:43.2	My uncle told me,
0:45.5	huh. He said,
0:47.2	don't leave those babies outside again, as if I already
0:49.5	had. Had you?
0:52.5	Come on.
0:56.2	And answer less precise than no.
1:01.0	"'Why is he monitoring coyote activity up here?' "'Because?'
1:03.0	"'Because?'
1:04.0	"'It's irresistible.'
1:06.0	"'Really?'
1:08.0	"'A wild dog, with a tender baby in its jaws, "' its jaws disappearing into the redwoods forever.
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