In 2025, Austria celebrates the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss Jr., Austria's famous Waltz composer.

Born into the legendary Strauss family, he composed beautiful pieces like the Blue Danube Waltz,

which soared to fame during his 1872 American tour.

In 2025, Vienna will host a year-long extravaganza to celebrate this legacy.

So join them and discover the magic of the waltz throughout the city.

Learn more at austria. info slash Strauss.

Thank you. This is The Writer's Voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.

I'm Debra Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this week's episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Saeed Sarah Fizzade read his story, minimum payment due from the November 25th, 2024 issue of the writer's voice will hear Sayyid Saraphizade read his story Minimum Payment

Due from the November 25th, 2024 issue of the magazine. Sarah Fisade is the author of the story

collection's brief encounters with the enemy, an American estrangement, a finalist for the

LA Times Book Prize, which was published in 2021. Now here's Sayyid Saraphizade.

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It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon and my phone was ringing.

Number unknown, which meant, of course, that it was one of the

collection agencies. They had called me three days ago. They had called me three days before that.

They were clearly not going to take no answer for an answer. The last time I'd made the mistake

of picking up, the woman had sounded as if she was about 20 years old, calling from somewhere in the

heartland,

speaking with flat vowels and a maternal tone, firm but loving, never mind the age difference.

We would hate for it to come to that, she said, which was code for legal proceedings.

I wanted to tell her that the irony was that sooner or later someone was going to be calling

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