In 2025, Austria celebrates the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss Jr., Austria's famous Waltz composer.

Born into the legendary Strauss family, he composed beautiful pieces like the Blue Danube Waltz,

which soared to fame during his 1872 American tour.

In 2025, Vienna will host a year-long extravaganza to celebrate this legacy.

So join them and discover the magic of the walls throughout the city. Learn more at

Austria. info slash Strauss.

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

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

On this week's episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Daisy Hildyard read her story,

revision, from the December 23, 2024 issue of the magazine.

Hildyard, a winner of the Somerset Mom Award and one of the National Book Foundation's

Five Under 35 Awards, is the author of the novel's Emergency and Hunters in the Snow,

and a nonfiction book, The Second Body.

Now here's Daisy Hilliard.

Revision

The Awakening began for Gabriel in Oxford in May 2009.

As final exams approached, everybody was talking about the girl who had walked up to the front

desk of the social sciences library and stabbed herself in the eyes with a pen.

She survived, they said, but was permanently blind and currently lying in the John Radcliffe Infirmary, awaiting the arrival of her parents.

There were rumours that students at Oriel College were being monitored through the barcodes on their

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