Susan Choi Reads Jennifer Egan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Susan Choi joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Found Objects,” by Jennifer Egan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2007. Choi is the author of five novels, including “My Education” and “Trust Exercise,” which won the National Book Award in 2019.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:08.3	I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:11.3	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and
0:14.8	discuss.
0:16.2	This month we're going to hear found objects by Jennifer Egan, which was published in
0:20.3	The New Yorker in December of 2007.
0:23.8	The woman glanced up, her soft brown eyes moving over Sasha's face.
0:29.1	What did she see?
0:30.7	Sasha wished that she could turn and peer into the mirror again as if something about herself
0:36.2	might at last be revealed.
0:38.6	Some lost thing, but she didn't turn.
0:42.3	She held still and let the woman look.
0:45.3	The story was chosen by Susan Choi, who's the author of five novels, including My Education
0:50.2	and Trust Exercise, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019.
0:54.6	Hi, Susan.
0:56.2	Hi.
0:57.2	So, what made you choose this story by Jennifer Egan to read today?
1:03.2	You know, a couple of things.
1:05.0	One is just that I love this story and it's so rewards rereading.
1:09.0	I've not just been rereading this story, but teaching it for years now, and my student's
1:14.0	always really connect with it.
1:15.4	But the other thing is that I had a feeling it would be really fun to read aloud and it
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