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

I'm Deborah Treasman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear T. Corragason Boyle read his story,

Asleep at the Wheel from the February 11th, 2019 issue of the magazine.

Boyle is the author of more than two dozen books of fiction, including the novels The Terranauts and The Harder They Come. A new novel, Outside Looking In, will be published in April.

Now here's T. Corragason Boyle.

A Sleep at the Wheel.

The purse.

The car says this to her.

Cindy, listen, I know you've got to get over to 1133 Hollister by 2 p.m.

for your meeting with Rose Taylor of Taylor Levine and Rodriguez LLP. But did you hear

that LeBurz is having a 30% off sale? And remember, they carry the complete Picard line you'd like,

in particular that cute cross-body bag in fuchsia you had your eye on last week. They have two left in

stock. They're moving along at just over the speed limit, which is what she's programmed the car

to do, try to squeeze every minute out of the day, but at the same time wary of breaking

the law.

She glances at her phone.

It's a quarter past one, and she really wasn't planning on making any other stops, aside

for maybe picking up a sandwich to eat in the car. But as soon as Carly, that's what she calls her operating system, mentions the sale.

She's envisioning the transaction. In and out, that's all it'll take.

Because she looked at the purse last week before ultimately deciding they wanted too much for it.

In and out, that's all. And Carly will wait for her at the curb. I see you're

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