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This is the writer's voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.

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

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Yianne Lee read her story,

Calm C, and Hard Faring, from the March 9th, 2026 issue of the magazine.

Lee is the author of eight books of fiction,

including the novels Must I Goe in the Book of Goose,

and the story collection Wednesday's Child,

which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024.

Her most recent book, Things in Nature, merely Grow,

won this year's Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Now here's Yi and Lee.

Calm scene and hard-faring.

That morning, on a Monday, in May, January 2015, the traffic did not ease up until they were past Half Moon Bay.

Lidion, looking back ten years later, from a New Jersey college town where Tesla's cyber trucks proud, felt that the Bay Area, before the 2016 election, had been as innocent as the children in her minivan, as well-intentioned, as ill-prepared. But are we not old-like children, in Euripidus

place, about to be murdered or sacrificed? Immediately, Lillian criticized herself for being too bleak,

protesting on behalf of those who were inadvertently

encompassed by her thoughts. That morning, having exited a busy route 92, Lillian relaxed a little,

and, for the first time, turned her attention to the five fourth graders

she was faring. Highway 1, stretching underneath a pale winter sun, was almost empty,

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