Hey podcast listeners, I'm Chris Morocco, the food director of Bonapete and Epicureus and the host of Dinner

SOS. Every week on Dinner SOS, we answer listeners questions about what's going on in their kitchens and that first hint of fall in the air means we're thinking about Thanksgiving and we want to help you out on the air.

Are you bored with your same old turkey preparation? Can't

figure out what to bring for your Friends Giving celebration or maybe you're

experimenting with a new cuisine this year. Whatever your Thanksgiving question is,

dinner SOS can help.

Email us your question at dinner SOS at bonapatit.com.

We just might feature it on the show. This is the writer's voice, New Fiction from the New Yorker.

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

The story in the magazine's October 7th 2024 issue is stories about

us by Lori Siegel. Siegel wasn't able to read her story for the podcast, but in 2010

on the New Yorker fiction podcast, Jennifer Egan read and discussed a different story by Lori Siegel.

The reverse bug from 1989, and we wanted to share this bonus sampling of Siegel's work with you instead.

Thank you for listening.

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

reverse bug by Lori Siegel. There was a rustle of people turning to locate the

voice that had said, my father went to the American consulate,

but it said nothing further, and the audience settled back.

The story was chosen by Jennifer Egan,

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