Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya
6/1/20261 hr 23 min
Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Fugitive,” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Ong is the author of numerous plays and of the novels “The Disinherited” and “Fixer Chao.” “Fixer Chao” was first published in 2001 and will be reissued this July by Outsider Editions.
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First 90 secondsDavid Remnick0:00
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Deborah Treisman· Host0:26
[upbeat music] This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from The New Yorker magazine. I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker. Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss. This month, we're going to hear "The Fugitive" by Ludmila Ulitskaya, which was translated from the Russian by Bella Shayevich and appeared in The New Yorker in May of twenty fourteen.
Speaker 30:59
A month and a half had gone by, and he still had no news from home. He did not seek out ways to get in touch with his wife. He was more comfortable not imagining how worried she was about him, her desires, anxieties, and fears.
Deborah Treisman· Host1:17
The story was chosen by Han Ong, who is the author of numerous plays and the novels Fixer Chow and The Disinherited. Hi, Han.
Speaker 31:27
Hey, Deborah.
Deborah Treisman· Host1:29
So I think you