Deborah Treisman’s “A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Deborah Treisman to discuss The New Yorker’s new anthology of short stories, “A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker, 1925-2025.”
By LARB Radio HourFebruary 14, 2025
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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor at The New Yorker and host of The New Yorker’s Fiction podcast. Deborah is the editor of a new anthology of short stories, A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker, 1925-2025, which features some of the incredible writers that The New Yorker has published over the past 100 years. There are stories by J.D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, Vladimir Nabokov, Jamaica Kincaid, Mary Gaitskill, Don DeLillo and Zadie Smith, and many, many more. Deborah discusses how she put the collection together and how she thinks about the short story as a form.
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